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Computational Argumentation 2021/2022 |
This is the course page of the master course Computational Argumentation 2021/2022. This course was formerly known as Commonsense reasoning and argumentation (INFOCR). You can only do one of these courses. The information below will be continuously updated during period 1.
The final grade of the course is determined as follows. The midterm exam counts for 30%, the final exam for 50%, while the homework assignment counts for 20%. The grades of the two exams and the homework assignment are expressed with one decimal but the final grade is rounded up to whole numbers (so without decimals). An additional requirement for passing is that both the average unrounded grade of the midterm and final exam and the grade for the homework assignment must be at least a 4.0. If this requirement is not met while yet the final grade before rounding up is 5.5 or higher, then the final grade is a 5. To qualify for the second-chance exam:
The exams are "open book but closed notebook": the student is allowed to take paper copies of the course reader and the articles listed above to the exercises and exam, where handwritten notes on these paper copies are allowed. The use of any other material during the exercises or exam is not allowed, unless announced otherwise at this page.
For the second-chance exam the student can choose to do a written exam about all lectures as a retake of the original midterm and final exams, and/or to hand in an improved version of the homework assignment. The grade for the written exam counts for 80% while the grade for the improved homework assignment counts for 20%. For calculating the final grade for the second-chance exam the highest of the original and new grades are combined with the original grades of the tests (exams or assignment) that are not retaken and then calculated as for the first-chance exam. Here the requirement to have at least a 4.0 for both the exam and the homework assignment still applies. The deadline for the improved homework assignment is the starting time of the second-chance written exam.
- Lectures (HC):
lecture | date | topics, reading + exercises | slides |
HC 1 | Mon 13-09 | Introduction / Default logic 1. Antoniou sections 1, 2.1-2.3. |
slides |
HC 2 | Wed 15-09 | Default logic 2. Antoniou sections 2.4-2.5, 3.1. Exercises: reader 2.1.1-2.1.6 |
slides
two examples |
HC 3 | Mon 20-09 | Default logic 3 /Abstract argumentation frameworks- semantics 1.
Antoniou sections 3, 6 Reader Ch. 3, sections 4.1-4.4 (labeling versions only). Exercises: reader 2.1.7-2.1.14, 3.2.1, 4.8.1, 4.8.3 (with labelings), 4.8.5, 4.8.7, 4.8.8, 4.8.9, 4.8.11 (with labelings). |
slides HC3a, slides HC3b |
Wed 22-09 | No lecture | ||
HC 4 | Mon 27-09 | Abstract argumentation frameworks - semantics 2.
Reader Ch. 4. Exercises: reader 4.8.2, 4.8.3 (with extensions), 4.8.4, 4.8.6, 4.8.10, 4.8.11 (with extensions), 4.8.12-4.8.15. |
slides |
HC 5 | Wed 29-09 | Abstract argumentation frameworks - proof theory.
reader Ch. 5. Exercises: reader 5.4.1-5.4.7. |
slides |
HC 6 | Mon 04-10 | Structured argumentation frameworks (1).
Reader sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.1-6.3.3. Exercises: reader 6.9.1, 6.9.2(1), 6.9.3 (arguments), 6.9.5(1). |
slides |
HC 7 | Wed 06-10 | Structured argumentation frameworks (2).
Reader sections 6.3.4, 6.4.1, 6.4.3. Exercises: reader 6.9.2-6.9.7. |
slides |
HC 8 | Mon 11-10 | Structured argumentation frameworks (3). reader sections 6.4.2, 6.4.4-6.4.7, 6.5, 6.7. Exercises: reader 6.9.8 - 6.9.14. |
slides |
Wed 13-10 | Midterm exam (11:30-13:30). | ||
HC 9 | Mon 18-10 | Structured argumentation frameworks (4) / Dynamics of argumentation (1). Reader sections 6.6, 6.8, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3.1. Exercises: reader 6.9.15-6.9.17, 7.4.1-7.4.3. |
slides |
HC 10 | Wed 20-10 | Dynamics of argumentation (2) / Argumentation as dialogue (1).
Reader Chapter 7, Section 8.1-8.3 Exercises: all exercises Chapter 7, exercise 8.6.1-8.6.2 |
slides |
HC 11 | Mon 25-10 | Argumentation as dialogue (2). Reader Chapter 8. Exercises: all exercises Chapter 8 |
slides |
HC 12 | Wed 27-10 | Legal argumentation (1).
Reader sections 9.1, 9.2.1-9.2.3. Exercises: reader 9.4.1-9.4.5. |
slides |
HC 13 | Mon 01-11 | Legal argumentation (2).
Reader sections 9.2.4-9.2.5, 9.3. Exercises: reader 9.4.6-9.4.7. |
slides |
HC 14 | Wed 03-11 | Concluding remarks; question time.
Readings: Sections 1-2 of Bench-Capon (2020) plus all of the above readings. |
slides |
Mon 08-11 | Final exam. |