{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Modeling Informal Debates","authors":[{"name":"Rachel Reichman","slug":"rachel-reichman","given":"Rachel","family":"Reichman","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Many rules of formal debate are well documented, of common knowledge, and \"looked-up\" in preparation for planned debating. Informal debates, on the other hand, are highly dynamic~ are complex, and are spontaneously generated witn no prior rule-book preparation. Tiley too, however, are rule-governed. In this paper I present an abstract process model capable of modeling •wellformed• argument structures that occur in ordinary conversations. The formalization rests on a general theoretical framework for discourse eng~ement encapsulated in a discourse ATN grammar. A ma or feature of the srstem is its segmentation of d scourse utterances nto functionally related context spaces.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/5","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0005.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/5.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/5","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":5,"pages":{"first":19,"last":23},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}