I'm going to do a mini-project about formalizing arguments in argumentation maps

[gusl]

I'm going to do a mini-project about formalizing arguments in argumentation maps. I am going to specify a system that aids the argument-mapper in his task of formalizing an argument in text form. My system will automatically create links between two boxes (statements) when the relationship between them is obvious (e.g. "therefore" in between), and, if not sure about what the relationship is, it will leave it up to the human user. For example, there are times when it's ambiguous whether a logical relationship is implied between two sentences.

e.g. "John left the army. He went crazy." Are these related? If so, which one is meant as the cause? Ok, this is not really an argument, but I think it's a related problem.

Can you suggest any ambiguous arguments?

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[rainbrot.livejournal.com]

Oh... language ambiguities. Oops. I wasn't presenting just one argument with those statements -- they actually represent conflicting ideas surrounding ambiguous information. Not particularly useful for what you're doing.