Resumen
Argumentation is an essential part of society, both in everyday situations and in academic environments. People argue for defending their standpoints or for criticising viewpoints that they do not share. For these reasons, understanding how arguments are assembled, interpreted and, eventually, evaluated plays a major impact in our lives. However, analysing and understanding arguments is a challenging task, which requires processes of identifying and reconstructing reasoning expressed in natural language. This tutorial aims to introduce attendees to the roots of the computationally supported analysis of arguments, a field that has been growing quickly over the past few years. It provides the fundamentals of what an argument is, how to identify them in natural language discourse and how they can be analysed by means the IAT/ML theory and the LogosLink software tool. The goal is not to simply identify what people think about a particular topic but to discover why they hold their views.
Palabras clave
Argumentation. Discourse.