arXiv:2601.12038cs.AI2026-01

将论证冲突与结构依赖分离,让推理过程更透明

Subargument Argumentation Frameworks: Separating Direct Conflict from Structural Dependency

  • 把直接攻击和子论证关系作为独立关系建模
  • 保持与传统框架相同的语义结果但揭示更多推理细节
  • 适合研究论证解释、防御机制的学者

Dung 的抽象论证框架仅用攻击关系来刻画可接受性,从而混淆了论证推理中两个概念上不同的方面:论证间的直接冲突与由其内部构成产生的结构依赖。尽管这种抽象保留了基于扩展的语义,却遮蔽了理由如何基于子论证建立,以及败诉如何通过论证结构传播。我们提出子论证论证框架(SAFs),其中直接攻击与子论证关系作为独立的基本关系表示。这种分离使结构依赖在表征层面显式化,而其语义影响则由框架内定义的结构敏感的防御、可接受性与完备语义决定。我们证明,将 SAFs 投影到仅含攻击的关系框架下,在所有标准语义下均产生等价的扩展,但投影会不可逆地丢失关于理由根基和结构传播的信息。因此,SAFs 在表达能力上严格更强,同时与 Dung 理论语义相容,为抽象论证中的防御、理由和解释提供了原则性基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Dung's abstract argumentation frameworks model acceptability solely in terms of an attack relation, thereby conflating two conceptually distinct aspects of argumentative reasoning: direct conflict between arguments and the structural dependencies that arise from their internal composition. While this abstraction preserves extension-based semantics, it obscures how justification is grounded in subarguments and how defeats propagate through argument structure. We introduce Subargument Argumentation Frameworks (SAFs), an abstract framework in which direct attack and subargumenthood are represented as independent primitive relations. This separation makes structural dependency explicit at the representational level while leaving its semantic impact to be determined by structure-sensitive notions of defence, admissibility, and complete semantics defined within the framework. We show that projecting SAFs onto attack-only frameworks yields extension-equivalent Dung frameworks under all standard semantics, yet the projection irreversibly loses information about justificatory grounding and structural propagation. SAFs therefore provide strictly greater representational expressiveness while remaining semantically compatible with Dung's theory, thereby offering a principled basis for structure-sensitive accounts of defence, justification, and explanation in abstract argumentation.

论证框架结构依赖语义分析

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