Coordination Funds

在优先方案第一阶段开始时，论证的研究领域相当分散和年轻。作为第一阶段协调项目的一个主要目标，我们确定的目标是通过组织一些共同的任务，促进在辩论领域内建立一致性。另一个目标是提高辩论专题在国际上的知名度，并共同组织关于这一专题的若干教程和讲习班。该协调项目在比勒费尔德的ZIF组织了年度研讨会，将来自所有项目的研究人员聚集在一起，交流思想和方法，并促进优先计划整体研究计划的一致性。这些年度研讨会有著名的特邀演讲者，如Serena Villata博士(CNRS)、Chris Reed教授(邓迪大学)、Gerd Brewka教授(莱比锡大学)和Naom SLonim博士(IBM研究人工智能)。在迄今取得的成功的基础上，协调计划将追求以下四个目标。首先，我们将继续在相关会议上组织科学活动，目标是每年举办2-3次研讨会/教程。第二，我们将继续促进优先计划内共享任务的组织和参与。在第二阶段，我们将集中于以下四个领域的共享任务的组织：i)论点分析，ii)论点检索，iii)论点的合成、生成和总结，以及iv)与论点系统的对话和其他人机界面。第三，我们将继续促进在小型工作组内组织研究活动和科学讨论。我们将通过建立沟通渠道和在优先方案年度会议期间组织分组会议来支持这些工作队。在第一次黑客松/非大会取得成功的基础上，协调项目将在2021年和2022年再组织两次黑客松，供人们处理特定的任务/数据集。最后，协调项目将继续组织年度研讨会，优先方案的所有成员将聚集在一起，交流进展、最新成果和想法。我们将继续在优先项目的外部邀请两名演讲者，以确保与整个科学界进行思想交流。

At the beginning of the first phase of the priority program, the research field of argumentation was rather fragmented and young. As a main aim of the coordination project of the firstphase, we had set the goal to contribute to establishing coherence within the field of argumentation by organizing a number of shared tasks. A further goal has been to increase the international visibility of the topic of argumentation and to co-organize a number of tutorials and workshops on the topic. The coordination project has organized yearly symposiums at the ZIF in Bielefeld, bringing researchers from all projects together to exchange and ideas and methods, and to foster coherence in the overall research program of the priority program. These yearly symposia have featured high-profile invited speakers such as: Dr. Serena Villata (CNRS), Prof. Dr. Chris Reed (University of Dundee), Prof. Dr. Gerd Brewka (Universiät Leipzig), and Dr. Naom Slonim (IBM Research AI).Building on the successes so far, the coordination program will pursue the following four goals.First, we will continue organizing scientific events at relevant conferences, aiming at 2-3 workshops/tutorials per year. Second, we will continue fostering the organization of and participation in shared tasks within the priority program. In the second phase, we will focus on the organization of shared tasks in the following four areas: i) analysis of arguments, ii) retrieval of arguments, iii) synthesis, generation and summarization of arguments, and iv) conversational and other human interfaces to argumentative systems. Third, we will continue to foster the organization of research activities and scientific discussions within small task forces. We will support these task forces by establishing communication channels and organizing break-out sessions during the annual meetings of the priority program. Building on the success of the 1st hackathon/unconference, the coordination project will organize two further hackathons in 2021 and 2022 for people to work on specific tasks / datasets. Finally the coordination project will continue to organize yearly symposia in which all the members of the priority program come together to exchange progress, recent results and ideas. We will continue tohave two invited speakers external to the priority program to ensure the exchange of ideas with the scientific community as a whole.