This keynote talk presents a key challenge which conjugate argument mining with formal computational models of argumentation, i.e., the assessment of the trustworthiness of natural language arguments, with a focus on fallacious argumentation, with the aim to show how these methods can be used to automatically identify...
It is shown that the integration of existing models of argumentation dialogues helps to create conversational agents that can guide non-expert users to receive system-centred XAI explanations in a way that expert users do.
This paper was written during the course “Introduction to Linguistic Theories and Analysis,” offered by the PPGL – Graduate Program in Linguistics at UFSCAR – Federal University of São Carlos, in February 2026. During the course, we had the opportunity to develop a paper, following the conclusion of the course, with th...
In argumentation theory, loci - also referred to as topoi - are commonly viewed as abstract sources of inference that guide the invention of arguments. Within the Argument Model of Topics (AMT), loci are analysed as sources of inference underlying individual arguments. This paper extends said view by arguin...
The dense passage in ‘On Denoting’, often called the Gray’s Elegy Argument, is directed against the view that each definite description is associated with two semantic items—what Bertrand Russell calls ‘meaning’ and ‘denotation’. It is possible to interpret the passage as a single, coherent argument against the view, i...
This paper reconstructs, in a historical and critical perspective, the Brentanian project of a reform of logic and the bifurcation that emerges between Twardowski and Husserl. Against the widespread tendency to frame the Austro-Polish debates through the metaphysical opposition realism/idealism, it argues that the deci...
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