Argumentation and Machine Learning: A Tutorial @ IJCAI 2019

Argumentation technology is a rich interdisciplinary area of research that, in the last two decades, has emerged as one of the most promising paradigms for commonsense reasoning and conflict resolution in a great variety of domains to the point that it is used in actual commercial research project such as IBM Debater. In this tutorial PhD students, early stage researchers, and machine learning experts will be introduced to (1) argumentation technology with concrete practical examples; (2) current state-of-the-art approaches of argumentation technology that leverage machine learning, from argument mining to automatic algorithm selection; and (3) current state-of-the-art approaches to machine learning that leverage argumentation technology, for instance for explainability of results coming from deep models.