Abstract
This paper explains the importance of classifying argumentation schemes, and outlines how schemes are being used in current research in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics on argument mining. It provides a survey of the literature on scheme classification. What are so far generally taken to represent a set of the most widely useful defeasible argumentation schemes are surveyed and explained systematically, including some that are difficult to classify. A new classification system covering these centrally important schemes is built.
Conflict of interest disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Acknowledgments
Douglas Walton would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for Insight Grant 435-2012-0104. Fabrizio Macagno would like to thank the Fundação para a Ciência ea Tecnologia for the research grant on Argumentation, Communication and Context (PTDC/FIL-FIL/110117/2009).
Notes
1. Araucaria can be downloaded from http://araucaria.computing.dundee.ac.uk/doku.php.
2. Carneades can be downloaded from http://carneades.github.com/.