Vers la construction de descriptions argumentées d’un accident de la route : analyse de diverses stratégies argumentatives

Abstract

Argumentation is situated at the crossroads of various disciplines; it concerns formal logic, as well as the production of texts appropriate to a given communicative situation, and even the interpretation of texts. The argumentation is a field of study, both descriptive and critical, concerned with the layout of the arguments (orally or in writing), notably in view of persuading an audience. In our work, we are interested in the expression of arguments in their natural framework (texts), with the aim of producing “biased descriptions”, i.e. descriptions which, while remaining truthful, trigger in the reader’s mind inferences ultimately leading him / her to conclude what is in “favour" of the author. The challenge will be to find strategies that generate such descriptions. In this article, we focus on the analysis of existing descriptions (the textual part of car crash reports) to highlight strategies used by human writers. We will take advantage of these strategies, in a second stage, to generate automatically “biased descriptions”.

Keywords

• argumentation
• Artificial Intelligence
• reasoning
• natural language
• argumentative strategies