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SUMMARY:Machine Arguing: From Data and Rules to Argumentation Frameworks -
  Francesca Toni\, Professor in Computational Logic in the Department of Co
 mputing\, Imperial College London\, UK 
DTSTART:20190117T130000Z
DTEND:20190117T140000Z
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CONTACT:Ayat Fekry
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nArgumentation frameworks have been widely studie
 d both in terms of formal properties they exhibit under different semantic
 s and in terms of applications they can support. But where are argumentati
 on frameworks coming from\, and how can argumentation\, a model-based appr
 oach to AI\, beneficially integrate with the nowadays-much-widespread data
 -centric AI perspective? In this talk I will overview applications empower
 ed by a variety of (extension-based and gradual) semantics for abstract an
 d bipolar argumentation frameworks automatically obtained from data (inclu
 ding but not limited to text) and from logical rules. Some of these applic
 ations require the integration of argumentation and machine learning\, and
  result in a mixed model-based and data-centric pipeline. For some applica
 tions\, the semantics informs the definition of the frameworks rather than
 \, as is conventionally the case\, being enforced on frameworks a posterio
 ri.\n\n*Bio*\n\nFrancesca Toni is Professor in Computational Logic in the 
 Department of Computing\, Imperial College London\, UK\, and the funder an
 d  leader of the CLArg (Computational Logic and Argumentation) research gr
 oup. Her research interests  lie within the broad area of Knowledge Repres
 entation and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence. She graduated\, summa c
 um laude\, in Computing at the University of Pisa\, Italy\, in 1990\, and 
 received her PhD in Computing in 1995\, from Imperial College London. She 
 has coordinated two EU projects\, received funding from EPSRC and the EU\,
  and awarded a Senior Research Fellowship from The Royal Academy of Engine
 ering and the Leverhulme Trust. She is currently Technical Director of  th
 e ROAD2H EPSRC-funded project (www.road2h.org). She was a founding member 
 of the steering committee of COMMA (COMputational Models of Argument) and 
 participates routinely in the organisation of top events in AI (e.g. she i
 s currently are chair of of IJCAI2019 and was programme co-chair of KR2018
 ). She is\, amongst other things\, in the editorial board of Argument&Comp
 utation and of Artificial Intelligence.\n\n
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Room FW11
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