CFG Seminar: Empirical research articles weave three types of argument structures

Abstract: Argumentation in research articles has been studied in a number of research communities, including sociology of science, rhetoric of science, applied linguistics, computational linguistics, and knowledge representation. This talk draws on work from those communities as well as my own and my students’ models of the biomedical papers’ argumentation. In this talk I will suggest how empirical research articles weave these three types of argument structures, relating to research methods, citations, and rhetorical moves.

The Conceptual Foundations Group (CFG) is an interest-based research group, centered around clarifying foundational concepts relating to information organization, data curation, and semantic technologies. Concepts related to the fundamental nature of information, descriptive metadata, digital objects and text markup are frequent topics. The group emphasizes the application of “formal methods” — that is, approaches that originated in logic, philosophy of language, analytic philosophy – to information science problem areas.

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