aiqbench analysis
This system integrates a large language model with the deterministic ABDA engine to create an interactive interface for argument-based reasoning, allowing users to manipulate formal knowledge bases via plain English. By strictly validating all LLM-generated edits before they alter the scenario, the architecture ensures that the core logical integrity of the ASPIC+ framework remains intact while significantly lowering the barrier to entry for complex formal logic tasks. This approach represents a meaningful step toward making rigorous argumentation systems accessible and editable by non-experts without sacrificing logical soundness.
ABDA-NL: A Natural-Language Scenario Explorer for Argument-Based Reasoning
arXiv:2610.00947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ABDA-NL adds a natural-language interface to ABDA, a system for argument-based discussion using ASPIC- knowledge bases under grounded semantics. Users see which conclusions are accepted, rejected, or undecided, open an interactive rendering of the grounded discussion game to learn why, explore what-if alternatives by suspending assumptions and rules or changing preferences, ask questions that are answered from a scenario's reference documents, and author new facts, assumptions, and rules in plain English. A large language model provides the bridge between language and formalism: it answers questions from the documents and the current state of the scenario, and it translates plain-English edits into candidate formal statements. The deterministic ABDA engine remains the sole source of arguments, attacks, and acceptance labels, and every proposal of the model is validated and confirmed by the user before it takes effect.
Abstract:ABDA-NL adds a natural-language interface to ABDA, a system for argument-based discussion using ASPIC- knowledge bases under grounded semantics. Users see which conclusions are accepted, rejected, or undecided, open an interactive rendering of the grounded discussion game to learn why, explore what-if alternatives by suspending assumptions and rules or changing preferences, ask questions that are answered from a scenario's reference documents, and author new facts, assumptions, and rules in plain English. A large language model provides the bridge between language and formalism: it answers questions from the documents and the current state of the scenario, and it translates plain-English edits into candidate formal statements. The deterministic ABDA engine remains the sole source of arguments, attacks, and acceptance labels, and every proposal of the model is validated and confirmed by the user before it takes effect.
9 pages, 3 figures. Extended version of a demonstration abstract in the Proceedings of COMMA 2026. Code at this https URL and live demo at this https URL
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
arXiv:2610.00947 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2610.00947v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.00947 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA260842 DOI(s) linking to related resources
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