Admissibility in Probabilistic Argumentation

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Abstract

Abstract argumentation is a prominent reasoning framework. It comes with a variety of semantics, and has lately been enhanced by probabilities to enable a quantitative treatment of argumentation. While admissibility is a fundamental notion in the classical setting, it has been merely reflected so far in the probabilistic setting. In this paper, we address the quantitative treatment of argumentation based on probabilistic notions of admissibility in a way that they form fully conservative extensions of classical notions. In particular, our building blocks are not the beliefs regarding single arguments. Instead we start from the fairly natural idea that whatever argumentation semantics is to be considered, semantics systematically induces constraints on the joint probability distribution on the sets of arguments. In some cases there might be many such distributions, even infinitely many ones, in other cases there may be one or none. Standard semantic notions are shown to induce such sets of constraints, and so do their probabilistic extensions. This allows them to be tackled by SMT solvers, as we demonstrate by a proof-of-concept implementation. We present a taxonomy of semantic notions, also in relation to published work, together with a running example illustrating our achievements.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
EditorsMeghyn Bienvenu, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Esra Erdem
PublisherIJCAI Organization
Pages87-98
ISBN (electronic)978-1-956792-99-7
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

TitleInternational Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 2021
Abbreviated titleKR 2021
Conference number18
Duration3 - 12 November 2021
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
Locationonline
CityHanoi
CountryViet Nam

External IDs

Scopus 85126251091
ORCID /0000-0002-5321-9343/work/142236682
ORCID /0000-0002-0645-1078/work/142250961

Keywords

Keywords

  • Argumentation, Dealing with uncertain, incomplete or contradictory information, Uncertainty, vagueness, many-valued and fuzzy logics