| 20120015342 | WEB APPLICATION FOR DEBATE MAPS - A fully web-enabled software system for building, editing, evaluating, rendering, navigating and storing an integrated repository of debate in which schematic representations of individual debates are bound together to form an over-arching repository of debate by a multiplicity of user-specified semantic cross-relationships that allow the emergence of clusters of related debates. The system is comprised of: a) Application software that allows users to build and edit debate maps made up of discrete elements representing entities such as issues, claims, positions, and simple and compound arguments in accordance with rules that foster sound argumentation practices, and b) Application software that enables users of the system to create an additional layer of semantic cross-relationships between individual debate elements where such elements may be in the same debate map, or in different debate maps, thereby enabling the representation of relationships between debates as well as the structure of individual debates. | 01-19-2012 |
