[Textop] FW: Debate Guide Project

[Larry Sanger]

Very interesting reference point.  The quick answer is: GlobalArgument.net
was "an experiment to evaluate different Computer-Supported Argumentation
approaches: both the technologies, and the 'craft skill' of using them
effectively."  That isn't anything like the purpose of the Debate Guide
Project.  The purpose of the DGP is to create, collaboratively, a *readable
reference work* that summarizes debates.  I'll give you a thesis I would be
willing to defend: a fine-grained argumentation standard is simply not
nearly as readable as ordinary prose paragraphs, and thus not as suitable as
a standard for the sort of reference work we want to make.  This isn't to
deny that it has very useful, important purposes, for example in artificial
intelligence or creating great educational tools.

Furthermore, wouldn't you want to have the dialectic fully mapped out, by
mature thinkers thoroughly familiar with the territory and working together
to "cover all the bases," *before* you attempt any sort of more careful,
fine-grained systematization?  If so, then you ought to support the project
as conceived, no?

You know, everyone, I would like to know if you are interested in this other
subproject enough to work a bit on it.  If enough of you are, I'm sure we
can make a solid "go" of it.  I was surprised that the "collection of
expert-reviewed resources," even though it is just one page, has turned out
so well.

http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=Collections_of_expert-reviewed_re
sources

If enough of you are interested in working together on a prototype then I
can make a more general call for participation in the larger DU community.
So let me know.

--Larry

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> [mailto:textop-bounces at lists.dufoundation.org] On Behalf Of 
> Philippe MARTIN
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> Subject: Re: [Textop] FW: Debate Guide Project
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> 
> > Would anyone like to approach an expert, lively, but polite 
> community 
> > of interlocutors to create a prototype?  I'm thinking of an 
> academic 
> > mailing list, with a broad spectrum of views, that deals with a 
> > charged topic in politics or law?
> 
> www.GlobalArgument.net stores various argumentation/debate modeling 
> experiments centered on the justification for the Irag war. 
> None of the results are fine-grained argumentations. None 
> distinguishes 
> the use of an argument/objection relation on a statement from 
> the use of an argument/objection relation on the use of 
> argument/objection relation (i.e., there are no 
> meta-statement and hence none represents debates 
> in a precise/correct way).
> 
> Philippe
> 
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