Arguing Agents Competition

Arguing Agents Competition

Abstract

In this talk we present the Arguing Agents Competition project. It is an effort of a community of argumentation researchers and MSc/PhD students from various Universities towards creating an open, competitive environment in which heterogeneous agents argue against one another. AAC is designed to provide an open forum in which agents can compete using various argument dialogue protocols, where moves and arguments can be evaluated through a variety of argument computation engines. We see AAC as an opportunity to build a new tool that researchers in argumentation can exploit in order to advance the state of the art in this field. As the project is ambitious and in early stage of development, it is also hoped that this talk will stimulate discussion around the issue.