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  <Title>Argumentation Mark-Up: A Proposal</Title>
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8. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This proposal is, to our knowledge, the first to explicitly apply XML mark-up to argumentation mark-up. It claims that the mark-up can be useful both for human critiquer and for further processing, thus being a multi-purpose, intermediate-level representation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Future work includes: * tracking possible conflicts of scope between tags (overlap, vs. simple embedding) * a systematic evaluation of the tag set, its adjustment, and the definition of a DTD * completing the implementation * application of machine learning (cf. the AAAI-97 Spring Symposium on ML for Discourse analysis; Hirschman et al. 98; Barker &amp; Szpakowicz 98).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> * implementing an acquisition tool with which a user could simply highlight a passage and click the appropriate tag's button.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> * exploration of information extraction based on a combination of HTML tags, (for structure) and discourse XML; comparison with the automatic mark-up of online catalogs * test with the students class on critical thinking  * testing onpolylogal discourse * designing a critiquing software, and especially a recognizer of fallacies * gather more data on speed reading or plain text, and on reading/speed reading of annotated text * last but not least, engaging in a collaborative effort towards a common DTD for argumentation mark-up, which is an important part of discourse mark-up.</Paragraph>
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