M-arguments

Argumentation has been investigated mainly as an abstract formalism. However, when applying argumentation techniques in practice, abstract arguments need to be instantiated through a logic language into structured argumentation frameworks. Although structured argumentation frameworks provide practical use of argumentation, we think that computational arguments could give light to richer structures. In this work, we introduce a new category of computational arguments named M-arguments. M-arguments are not meta-arguments as the name could suggest, they are computational arguments with rich structure. Such a rich structure allows us to represent a large number of computational models of arguments. Further, M-arguments allows us not only to represent the usual structure of arguments, but also to represent relevant information that concerns the dialectic and rhetoric aspects of argumentation.