Argumentation Schemes as Templates? Combining Bottom-up and Top-down Knowledge Representation

This paper describes a long-term research goal which aims at creating a middleware interface between Argumentation Schemes and natural language. This idea comes from the need to face some challenges related to the automatic extraction of Argumentation Schemes from Natural Language: for example the ability to extract Argumentation Schemes at different level of granularity. In the paper we describe how this process can be designed and how the structures of Argumentation Schemes can be modeled to this aim.