Analyzing and Modelling the Structure of Argument Compounds in Logic: the case of technical texts

ABSTRACT. In this contribution, we start form a concrete problem: the identification of argument compounds and show how their structure can be modelled on a linguistic and logical basis. This investigation is, in a first stage, restricted to arguments found in technical texts. Then, we propose a type-based syntactic analysis and the premises of a conceptual model that accounts for the logical properties of such compounds. An implementation in Dislog is presented with an indicative evaluation of the results. Dislog runs on TextCoop which is a logic-based platform we developed for discourse analysis.