Argumentation and Belief

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence held its 1991 Spring Symposium Series on March 26-28 at Stanford University, Stanford, California. This article contains short summaries of the eight symposia that were conducted. For example, in rhetoric, the groundswarrant-claim model has been used to analyze the structure of arguments. In psycholinguistics, researchers have analyzed the discourse structure of expository text by applying theories of discourse and schema coherency. In the field of logic, the emphasis has been on establishing axiomatic systems for deducing consistent beliefs.