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Simon Wells
Simon Wells

Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.

He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.

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AISB Persuasive Technology Symposium Day 2

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This is the day where the symposium really got going for me. Yesterday was interesting but the topics for today were much more closely aligned to my own research interests.

Randy Harris and Chrysanne DiMarco: Constructing a Rhetorical Figuration Ontology

Automated annotation of rhetorical figures in texts.

Simon Wells, Andrew Ravenscroft, Musbah Sagar and Chris Reed: Mapping Persuasive Dialogue Games onto Argumentation Structures

My presentation. Slides online here and paper here. Basis of a submitted JISC rapid innovation proposal.

Manfred Stede: Pro or Contra? Persuasion in the Potsdam Commentary Corpus

Pro & Contra texts. Diagramming arguments from "wild texts" in local regional German newspapers. Evaluating the arguments with users to measure degree of persuasiveness.

Lionel Fontan and Patrick Saint-Dizier: An Analysis of the Persuasive Strength of Arguments in Procedural Texts

Investigating arguments and explanations and the difference between facilitation (how-to) versus argumentation (why).

Bal Krishna Bal and Patrick Saint-Dizier: Towards an Analysis of Argumentation Structure and the Strength of Arguments in News Editorials

Tagging elements of arguments found in editorials incorporating persuasive effects, strength, &c.
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