Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
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Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
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Re: Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
#2Huh, I've never needed something like this. What kind of industries/hobbies/interests use this type of tool regularly?
Re: Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
#3Huh, I've never needed something like this. What kind of industries/hobbies/interests use this type of tool regularly?
I don't think you ever need something like this. It's just another tool in your toolbox. It's like graphs and diagrams - at some point some information will be easier to show this way than by writing it out in details.
I've used it a few times. For example when justifying a project of migrating a large legacy app to docker deployment.
It's also useful for getting a specific kind of result from LLMs - GPT knows how to summarise discussions/conflicts in ArgDown format.
Re: Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
#4Oh arguments like disagreeing with people, not arguments passed to a command line utility.
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#6Ha I thought it was a tool for managing complex args for command-line tools
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#7Ha I thought it was a tool for managing complex args for command-line tools
Yes, I did as well. I don’t really care for the way DocC documents arguments and was hoping for something innovative.
Re: Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
#8I tried writing diary entries in argdown for a while.
It was fun having this big visual map of all my thoughts on everything, especially when I reused premises a lot. It wasn't particularly useful though.
Re: Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
#9For an example of how these may be used, Kialo [1] uses a form of argument maps for structured debate. There's also an Obsidian plugin for argument maps [2], tho it's a bit out of date.
Re: Argdown, like Markdown for argument mapping
#10I am the author of some recent literature on Competitive Debate datasets for the NLP community:
1. https://aclanthology.org/2020.argmining-1.1/
2. https://paperswithcode.com/paper/opendebateevidence-a-massiv... (under review at a main conference, but we had an acceptance to ARGMIN 2024 at ACL 2024 which we declined)
I'm very interested in talking with the authors of this work about how we can think about structured argumentation notations like this for the American Competitive debate community. American Competitive Debaters have their own informal markdown-like structures and fuzzy-syntax of their formatting alongside so much jargon that I really want to see how it can map to something like Argdown.