diff --git a/projects/almanac.md b/projects/almanac.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a8a898a381c9f61ae5ef1f9d2e85fc1a61c301d --- /dev/null +++ b/projects/almanac.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +layout: project + +title: "ALMANAC: Argumentation Logics Manager & Argument Context Graph" +teaser: Decision situations require individuals and organizations to choose between a multitude of options based on facts, opinions, and arguments about the situation at hand or similar ones. There is already a large set of prior work on the representation of knowledge, inference, and argumentations; the ALMANAC aims to a) bring order into the zoo of proposed formalisms, b) categorize their inter-relations, and c) benchmark them on real-world corpora. + +active: true +start_date: '2018' +end_date: '2021' +publink: auto + +people: + - mkohlhase + - dmueller + +funding: DFG +program: Normalverfahren +grantid: KO 2428/18 +--- +Decision situations require individuals and organizations to choose between a multitude of options based on facts, opinions, and arguments about the situation at hand or similar ones. Current support systems are mostly fact-based and fail to take into account arguments found on the web or in the literature. + +The SPP brings together a community of researchers who develop robust and scalable models for argumentations in human communication in all their complexity and imprecision. The proposed ALMANAC project aims to support the logic-based pillar of this enterprise. There is already a large set of prior work on the representation of knowledge, inference, and argumentations and the SPP will no doubt develop more. + +The first objective of the proposed ALMANAC project is to provide a unifying infrastructure so that the SPP projects and wider community can interoperate, compare results, and create joint logic resources. Concretely we propose to + +a. bring order into the zoo of proposed formalisms, +b. categorize their inter-relations, and +c. benchmark them on real-world corpora + +For this the ALMANAC project proposes to utilize the OMDoc/MMT framework developed by the proposer’s research group. The framework uses theory graphs for the modular representation of domain knowledge in logical languages and for logical formalisms themselves in meta-logics. Inter-logic relations can be modelled as theory-morphisms: truth-preserving mappings between theories. The ALMANAC project wants to provide the SPP with a “logic atlas†as a resource of explicitly represented formalisms and frameworks that can serve as a basis for integration of methods. + +The second objective of the proposed ALMANAC project is to utilize the theory graph structure as a model for the contexts in multi-agent argumentations: theory graphs naturally provide “little ontologies†(the theories) that can be mutually exclusive and are interconnected by inclusions and views (in OMDoc/MMT). To augment them to full argumentation context graphs we want to add argumentation relations like attack, rebut, support, and undercut and study their ontological properties. +OMDoc/MMT is implemented by the MMT system, which serves as a (meta)-knowledge base and offers logical services like type/proof checking, inter-logic translation, and human-oriented browsing of corpora. MMT is integrated into the MathHub system which additionally offers user- and logic-corpus management facilities and can serve as the basis for logic-based challenges (Joint Tasks; the third objective of ALMANAC) that induce synergies between projects in the SPP and thus contribute to the coherence of the overall endeavor.