• Abstract: “This paper builds upon the proposed dialogical extensions to the AIF, termed AIF+, by making explicit the representation of the role of illocutionary force in the connection between argument structures and dialogical structures. Illocutionary force is realised in the form of Illocutionary Application (YA-) nodes that provide an explicit linkage between the locutions uttered during a dialogue and the underlying arguments expressed by the content of those locutions.”
• Paper Link: This will be available after the conference
• Presentation Link: ditto
• Citation: C. Reed, S. Wells, K. Budzynska & J. T. Devereux, “Building Arguments with Argumentation: The Role of Illocutionary Force in Computational Models of Argument”, (2010), in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2010). Desenzano del Garda, Italy.

I changed the wordpress theme over to thematic which is current favourite shiny thing. Great widget support means that I have added live rss feeds into the footer of the site from two of my other blogs, strange aeons and cult of the green man.

• Abstract: “Argument Blogging is the process of harvesting textual resources from the web and structuring them into distributed argumentative dialogues. This paper introduces a prototype software system for performing argument blogging and storing the resultant dialogues so that they can be analysed and reused.”
• Paper Link: wells2009blogging.pdf
• Presentation Link: cmna2009.pdf
• Citation: S. Wells, C. Gourlay, and C. Reed, “Argument Blogging”, (2009), in 9th International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA 9). IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, California, U.S.

This is the new home for my personal academic pages, my academic brand, as it were.

I have had the simonwells.org domain name sitting unused for a couple of years and thought that there was no better address for my personal pages to be made available through.