NEXAS: A Visual Tool for Navigating and Exploring Argumentation Solution Spaces

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Abstract

Recent developments on solvers for abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) made them capable to compute extensions for many semantics efficiently. However, for many input instances these solution spaces can become very large and incomprehensible. So far, for the further exploration and investigation of the AF solution space the user needs to use post-processing methods or handcrafted tools. To compare and explore the solution spaces of two selected semantics, we propose an approach that visually supports the user, via a combination of dimensionality reduction of argumentation extensions and a projection of extensions to sets of accepted or rejected arguments. We introduce the novel web-based visualization tool NEXAS that allows for an interactive exploration of the solution space together with a statistical analysis of the acceptance of individual arguments for the selected semantics, as well as provides an interactive correlation matrix for the acceptance of arguments. We validate the tool with a walk-Through along three use cases.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2022)
EditorsFrancesca Toni, Sylwia Polberg, Richard Booth, Martin Caminada, Hiroyuki Kido
PublisherIOS Press, Amsterdam [u. a.]
Pages116–127
Number of pages12
Volume220146
ISBN (electronic)9781643683065
ISBN (print)9781643683065
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesFAIA

External IDs

Scopus 85139483458
dblp conf/comma/Yang22
Mendeley 7632251b-8984-34c9-a14c-a52de3f7a0b0
unpaywall 10.3233/faia220146
ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/154740490

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Keywords

  • abstract argumentation, solution space exploration, visualization