Slides accompanying the paper:
Buckingham Shum, Simon (2008). Cohere: Towards Web 2.0 Argumentation. In: Proc. COMMA'08: 2nd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, 28-30 May 2008, Toulouse, France. Preprint: http://oro.open.ac.uk/10421
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Cohere: Towards Web 2.0 Argumentation
1. Proc. 2nd International Conference on Computational
Models of Argument, Toulouse, May 2008
Towards Web 2.0
Argumentation
Simon Buckingham Shum
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University
Milton Keynes, UK
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
Licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License
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2. Overview
The Web 2.0 phenomenon
Key aspects for COMMA end-user tools
Web argumentation state of the art
Cohere
Limitations and future work
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3. The dizzy world of “Web 2.0”
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11. Web 2.0: information structuring:
emergent, not predefined, semantics
Tagclouds: simple visualization of keywords by popularity,
reflecting emergent community “folksonomy”
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12. Web 2.0: information structuring:
emergent, not predefined, semantics
Wikis: designed to enable a community to add structure as and
when they need, not be locked into a set of predefined forms
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14. Web 2.0: interoperability, mashups,
embedded content
RSS as data exchange
lingua franca
APIs enable data mashups + services
easily embeddable media
helps them spread virally
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/launch_anim_slavery.shtml
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15. The bottom line:
The bar has been raised for
the Web user and
developer experience
Are COMMA tools up to the
challenge?
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16. Web-based Argumentation: state of the art
Debatepedia — a wiki structured into arguments for and against a question
http://wiki.idebate.org
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17. Web-based Argumentation: state of the art
TruthMapping — distinguishes unsupported premises from evidenced claims
http://truthmapping.com
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18. Web-based Argumentation: state of the art
DebateGraph — an IBIS-based tool providing a structured outline view
http://debategraph.net
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19. Web-based Argumentation: state of the art
CoPe_it! —IBIS-based tool providing threads, maps and decision-support
http://copeit.cti.gr/site
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20. Web-based Argumentation: state of the art
ClaiMaker/ClaimFinder — semantic annotation and search of scholarly literature
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/scholonto
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22. Conclusion: there are currently no
“Web 2.0” argumentation tools
There are no tools satisfying all of the following criteria:
Provide an engaging, “walk up and use” interface
Make it easy to link to, and embed argumentation in other
websites (like a YouTube movie)
Enable end-user definition of the semantics
Promote networking between participants
Provide an open architecture with API services
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23. Cohere is
introduced not as
an argumentation
tool, but as a tool
for making
meaningful
connections
between ideas.
Argumentation is
just one possible
application that
some users may
want to pursue
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29. Ideas may be assigned a Role in the
context of a given connection
your assumption may be my
problem…
my claim may be your
evidence…
The default Idea role can be
specialized to one of the preset
examples or user-defined
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36. Cohere: a mashup visualization merging
different connections around a common
Idea
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37. Cohere usage statistics
We are logging a range of statistics — yet to be analysed, e.g.
Approx 1-3 new users/day
register, consistent for last
few months
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39. Limitations, and future work
Interface not responsive on all platforms (Windows is
currently best) or with large datasets
moving from Java to Flash visualizations
re-architecting the interface to be more efficient
Usability trials have shown weaknesses
now being tackled in a new version of the user
interface
Much requested user-groups management added to
strengthen the social/collaboration dimension
Cohere not currently an open platform
v2 has a RESTful services API enabling data read
/write through URLs
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40. Cohere v1 (the current public release)
is a closed application
Database
(MySQL)
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41. Cohere v2 is an open data platform +
API providing REST services
Firefox Other
Extension Services
Other
User Interface Applications
API (REST services)
Application (PHP)
Database
(MySQL)
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42. Limitations, and future work (cont/d)
RDF import/export now working (+ basic AIF)
RSS feeds to be added
New mashup possibilities
arguments merged with GIS (GoogleMaps)
or timelines (Simile), etc
An open platform for COMMA researchers?
add your own user interfaces and reasoning
services…
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