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The Fourth Summer School on Argumentation: Computational and Linguistic Perspectives (SSA 2020) - ONLINE September 4th-8th 2020 https://ssa2020.dmi.unipg.it <http://ssa2016.west.uni-ko/> ================================================================ The fourth "Summer School on Argumentation: Computational and Linguistic Perspectives" (SSA 2020) will provide attendees with a solid foundation in computational and linguistic aspects of argumentation and the emerging connections between the two. Furthermore, attendees will gain experience in using various tools for argument analysis and processing. Besides students having argumentation as a major research interest, the school welcomes both students and researchers in different fields, including e.g. non-monotonic reasoning, knowledge representation, logic programming, linguistics, natural language processing, philosophy and psychology, just to mention a few of them. In general, all researchers directly or indirectly interested in Artificial Intelligence may find interesting topics in the school. Due to the persisting coronavirus crisis the Summer School on Argumentation will be fully online. The program will include courses, keynotes, and the student program. Courses will introduce argumentation along different perspectives (abstract and structured level, argumentation as inference and argumentation as dialogues, probabilistic argumentation), and will deal with the application of argumentation for normative and legal reasoning, argument mining from natural language, and the use of a general software tool for argumentation. Some material might be provided in advance to be discussed during the interactive sessions. Keynotes will give a focused overview on a specific topic. The student program will consist of digital poster sessions and discussions with mentors. Participants in the student program have to submit a 2-page abstracts before the school and will have the opportunity to present their work as a digital poster. The best poster will be awarded a "best poster award". SSA 2020 will be co-located with the 8th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2020) organized by the University of Perugia in Italy. It is the fourth event in the series of Summer Schools on Argumentation, the first Summer School on Argumentation took place at the University of Dundee in 2014 in the UK, the second took place at the University of Postdam in 2016 in Germany, and the third at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. Program details ================================================================ Lecturers: Pietro Baroni (University of Brescia, Italy) Sergio Flesca (University o Calabria, Italy) Guido Governatori (Data61, CSIRO, Australia) Nicolas Maudet (Sorbonne University, France) Sanjay Modgil (King's College London, UK) Simon Parsons (King's College London, UK) Giovanni Sartor (University of Bologna, Italy) Matthias Thimm (Institute for Web Science and Technologies - WeST, Germany) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy) Keynote speakers: Fabio Paglieri (Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council, Italy) Chris Reed (University of Dundee, Scotland) Registration and Submission Details ================================================================ Participants in the summer school need to register in order to be eligible to attend the program. The registration for SSA 2020 will be made available by the end of June (check SSA 2020 web site https://ssa2020.dmi.unipg.it <applewebdata://03BA4B31-142F-4037-8BE7-550C6EC85BC6/%22> for the registration link). Registration fees: Participants will be charged the symbolic registration fee of 10 euro. Since the number of participants is limited to 60 people, interested participants are encouraged to register as soon as possible and before August 31th. The student program of SSA 2020 consists of digital poster sessions, where participants can present their work and discuss it with the lecturers and keynote speakers, and a mentoring session, where specific topics can be discussed. Participants in the student program have to submit a thesis abstract until August 16th (a submission link will be provided in the website of the school). The abstract should not exceed 2 pages in length (not including references) and follow the formatting instructions of COMMA'20. The abstract should give an overview of the PhD project of the student. For students at an early stage of the PhD, the abstract can outline an objective and motivation of the research, while more advanced PhD students can also report on previous results, which can be published elsewhere. All abstracts will be reviewed. In case of acceptance the students have to present their work at a poster session. The best poster will be awarded a "best poster award". The student program is an important part of the summer school, but participation in the student program is not mandatory for attending the summer school and based on acceptance of a thesis abstract. More details on the submission procedure can be found on the website of the school. Important dates ================================================================ Student abstract submission deadline 16th August Student abstract notification 26th August Student abstract final version 31th August Registration deadline 3rd September Summer School 4th-8th September 2020 Organizers ================================================================ Massimiliano Giacomin (Chair SSA 2020) Stefano Bistarelli (Co-Chair SSA 2020 and Conference Chair COMMA’20) Henry Prakken (Program Chair COMMA’20) Francesco Santini (Conference Co-Chair COMMA’20) Carlo Taticchi (Publicity Chair COMMA’20) Francesco Federico Calemi (Organizing Committee Member) Francesco Faloci (Organizing Committee Member) Laura Marozzi (Organizing Committee Member) Ivan Mercanti (Organizing Committee Member) -- Carlo Taticchi COMMA 2020 publicity chair
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