Author's Argumentation Assistant (AAA): A Hypertext-Based Authoring Tool for Argumentative Texts

摘要

The paper presents the conceptualization and implementation of Author's Argumentation Assistant (AAA), a prototype authoring tool for creating argumentation-based hyperdocuments. AAA uses a combination of different independent but cooperating modes of operation dedicated to different cognitive tasks of the argumentative writing process. The entire argumentation structure is represented as a layered network of typed nodes and links in which different layers correspond to different levels of abstraction. The paper is organized as follows: first it describes the basic ideas of Writing Environment (WE): its underlying general theory of modes and writing strategies, and its four different operational modes. Then the particular approach of AAA is presented: the used conceptual framework for argumentation, its new modes for argumentation, rhetorics, and type definition as well as some ideas for further investigations.