Priority Programme "Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO)" (SPP 1999/1)

Funded projects in alphabetical order according to the university locations of the DFG projects:

  • "How to Win Arguments - Empowering Virtual Agents to Improve their Persuasiveness"
    (Professor Dr. Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg, Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Minker, University of Ulm)
  • "Coordination Project"
    (Professor Dr. Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld)
  • "Rationalizing Recommendations"
    (Professor Dr. Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Professor Dr. Matthias L. Hemmje, FernUniversity of Hagen)
  • "MARDY: Modeling Argumentation Dynamics in Political Discourse"
    (Professor Dr. Sebastian Haunss, University of Bremen, Professor Dr. Jonas Kuhn, University of Stuttgart, Professor Dr. Sebastian Padó, University of Stuttgart)
  • "Argumentative Machine Learning"
    (Professor Dr. Kristian Kersting, University of Darmstadt, Dr. Matthias Thimm, University of Koblenz-Landau)
  • "Argument-Based Decision Support for Recommender Systems (ASSURE)"
    (Professor Dr.-Ing. Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Professor Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Ziegler, University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • "ALMANAC: Argumentation Logics Manager & Argument Context Graph"
    (Professor Dr. Michael Kohlhase, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • "Reconstructing Arguments from Noisy Text"
    (Professor Dr. Stefan Evert, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Professor Dr. Lutz Schröder, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  • "Argumentation in Comparative Question Answering (ACQuA)"
    (Professor Dr. Christian Biemann, University of Hamburg, Professor Dr. Matthias Hagen, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg)
  • "Between the Lines - Knowledge-enhanced Argument Analysis in a Formal Argumentation Reasoning System"
    (Professor Dr. Annette Frank, University of Heidelberg, Professor Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim)
  • "Visual Analytics and Linguistics for Interpreting Deliberative Argumentation (VALIDA)"
    (Professor Dr. Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Professor Dr. Katharina Holzinger, University of Konstanz, Professor Dr. Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz)
  • "ReMLAV: Relational Machine Learning for Argument Validation"
    (Professor Dr. Hinrich Schütze, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of München, Professor Dr. Thomas Seidl, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of München)
  • "ReCAP: Information Retrieval and Case-Based Reasoning for Robust Deliberation and Synthesis of Arguments in the Political Discourse"
    (Professor Dr. Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Professor Dr.-Ing. Ralf Schenkel, University of Trier)