Critiquing Justifications for Action Using a Semantic Model: Demonstration

摘要

Citizens consult their representatives about policy proposals to seek a justification, to object, or to make a proposal. In the first instance, the representative only needs to state a justification. In the second instance, the locus of the objection needs to be identified. As a result, the government can carry out a survey to discover precisely what citizens object to. The third instance requires a well formulated proposal from the citizen that can then be critiqued from the standpoint of the government's policy proposal. At the end of such a consultation, users will have aired their proposals, understood the implications, and received feedback on how their proposals contrast to that of the government. The demonstration provides an interactive program for this third instance, similar to that described in [3]. It is developed for a well-defined domain using a formalisation of an argumentation scheme [1] that is grounded in a semantic model [2].