Relational Argumentation Semantics
This provides a foundational approach for researchers in computational argumentation to integrate various semantics, though it appears incremental as it reinterprets existing methods.
The paper tackles the problem of unifying diverse argumentation semantics by proposing a relational database perspective, showing that many existing semantics can be understood under this common framework.
In this paper, we propose a fresh perspective on argumentation semantics, to view them as a relational database. It offers encapsulation of the underlying argumentation graph, and allows us to understand argumentation semantics under a single, relational perspective, leading to the concept of relational argumentation semantics. This is a direction to understand argumentation semantics through a common formal language. We show that many existing semantics such as explanation semantics, multi-agent semantics, and more typical semantics, that have been proposed for specific purposes, are understood in the relational perspective.