The Argument Interchange Format (AIF) is an international effort to develop a representational mechanism for exchanging argument resources between research groups, tools, and domains using a semantically rich language. AIF traces its history back to a 2005 colloquium in Budapest. The result of the work in Budapest was first published as a draft description in 2006.
[Chesnevar, Carlos, Sanjay Modgil, Iyad Rahwan, Chris Reed, Guillermo Simari, Matthew South, Gerard Vreeswijk, and Steven Willmott. "Towards an argument interchange format." The knowledge engineering review 21, no. 4 (2006): 293-316.] Building on this foundation, further work then used the AIF to build foundations for the
Argument Web
The Argument Web is a large-scale Web of interconnected argument, arguments created by individuals as they express their opinions and interact with the opinions of others.Rahwan, Iyad, Fouad Zablith, and Chris Reed. "Laying the foundations for a wo ...
.
AIF-RDF is the extended ontology represented in the
Resource Description Framework Schema (RDFS) semantic language.
The Argument Interchange Format introduces a small set of ontological concepts that aim to capture a common understanding of argument -- one that works in multiple domains (both domains of argumentation and also domains of academic research), so that data can be shared and re-used across different projects in different areas. These ontological concepts are:
* Information (I-nodes)
* Applications of Rules of Inference (RA-nodes)
* Applications of Rules of Conflict (CA-nodes)
* Applications of Rules of Preference (PA-nodes)
extended by:
* Schematic Forms (F-nodes) that are instantiated by RA, CA and PA nodes
The AIF has
reification
Reification may refer to:
Science and technology
* Reification (computer science), the creation of a data model
* Reification (knowledge representation), the representation of facts and/or assertions
* Reification (statistics), the use of an id ...
s in a variety of development environments and implementation languages including
* MySQL database schema
* RDF
* Prolog
* JSON
as well as translations to visual languages such as DOT and SVG.
AIF data
can be accessed online a
AIFdb
See also
*
Argument map
References
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External links
* http://www.argumentinterchange.org/
* http://www.aifdb.org
Argument technology