Argumentation and Events

Argumentation Community Group,

Argumentation is applicable to models of events and to models of interrelated events. Argumentation can be of use when discussing the existence of events, properties of events, as well as causality between and other relationships between events, the nature of events.

On Wikipedia, for example, there are articles about historical topics and eras and each article has an accompanying discussion page.  The overarching model of collaboration on Wikipedia, wiki, includes argumentation to consensus where evolving encyclopedia articles or resources are intended to exist, per applicable topic, and each is the subject of accompanying discussion.

Another variety of collaboration is argumentation as the resource, where the discussion, both the agreements and disagreements between individual participants, is intended as a resource for others to make use when seeking information.

Group processes where topics are discussed, argued about, and voted upon, are topical.  With regard to models of argumentation, for scenarios with transparent voting, additional data can be attached to vote objects.  Participants can explain why they voted as they did, annotating their vote objects.  The claims of vote objects can be interpreted as being that one ought to vote as a voter did, or that one, in some role or combination of roles, ought to have voted as a voter did; for example, a role could be representing a particular constituency.  Processes involving discussion, deliberation, and voting are means by which groups can argue towards consensus and, by attaching annotative data to votes, the records or minutes of such processes can have enhanced utility.

Models of historical data include interrelated events, conceptualizations of the present do, and so too do models of possible futures.  Collaborative encyclopedia articles can be viewed as the evolving results of argumentation towards consensus and their accompanying discussion areas can be viewed as that argumentation or as places where argumentation is the resource.  Wiki-based technologies can be enhanced by technologies and techniques for facilitating structured discussions in articles' discussion areas, for example interactive argument mapping technologies.

With regard to argumentation and models of events, events can be viewed as the claims of arguments, properties of events can be viewed as claims of arguments, and the connections between or relationships between events can be viewed as the claims of arguments.  Models of narratives include interrelated events; argumentation has applicability to modeling events and interrelated events as well as to modeling narrative.



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Adam