Transforming Natural Arguments in Araucaria to Formal Arguments in LMA

Over the last few years, argumentation has been gaining increasing importance in multi-agent systems research. LMA is a Logic of multiple-valued argumentation built on top of EALP (extended annotated logic programming). Araucaria is a software tool for analyzing and diagramming arguments written in natural language. We integrate these two systems involved in argumentation to an easy to use and more user-friendly argumentation system, in which natural arguments can be transformed into formal arguments, in order to lighten users´ knowledge burden forced by formal argumentation frameworks, and attain extensive usability of formal argumentation systems. We illustrate the transformation process by translating natural arguments in English to formal arguments in EALP step-by-step, and then how the status of those formal arguments can be determined in LMA, resulting in the status determination of original natural arguments.