D-BAS - A Dialog-Based Online Argumentation System

In this paper, we present D-BAS, a dialog-based online argumentation system, tailored to support e-participation processes. The main idea of D-BAS is to let users exchange proposals and arguments with each other in the form of a timeshifted dialog where arguments are presented and acted upon one-at-a-time. We highlight the key research challenges that needed to be addressed in order to realize such a system, provide solutions for those challenges, report on a full scale implementation of D-BAS and summarize the findings from a real world e-participation process, where D-BAS provided the infrastructure for online argumentation.

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