Slate: An Argument-Centered Intelligent Assistant to Human Reasoners
Selmer Bringsjord, Joshua Taylor, Andrew Shilliday, Micah H. Clark, Konstantine Arkoudas · 2008
We describe Slate, a logic-based, robust interactive rea- soning system that allows human pilots to harness an ensemble of intelligent agents in order to construct, test, and express various sorts of natural argumentation. Slate empowers students and profession- als in the business of producing argumentation, e.g., mathematicians, logicians, intelligence analysts, designers and producers of standard- ized reasoning tests. We demonstrate Slate in several examples, de- scribe some distinctive features of the system (e.g., reading and gen- erating natural language, immunizing human reasoners from log- ical illusions), present Slate's theoretical underpinnings, and note upcoming refinements.