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DAQAP: Defeasible Argumentation Query Answering Platform

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In this paper we present the DAQAP, a Web platform for Defeasible Argumentation Query Answering, which offers a visual interface that facilitates the analysis of the argumentative process defined in the Defeasible Logic Programming (DeLP) formalism. The tool presents graphs that show the interaction of the arguments generated from a DeLP program; this is done in two different ways: the first focuses on the structures obtained from the DeLP program, while the second presents the defeat relationships from the point of view of abstract argumentation frameworks, with the possibility of calculating the extensions using Dung’s semantics. Using all this data, the platform provides support for answering queries regarding the states of literals of the input program.

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This work was partially supported by funds provided by CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), and by the EU H2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 690974 for the project “MIREL: MIning and REasoning with Legal texts”.

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Leiva, M.A., Simari, G.I., Gottifredi, S., García, A.J., Simari, G.R. (2019). DAQAP: Defeasible Argumentation Query Answering Platform. In: Cuzzocrea, A., Greco, S., Larsen, H., Saccà, D., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11529. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27629-4_14

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