Caren Al Anaissy

An argumentation-based platform for e-democracy. Member.

Studying human compliance with argumentation principles and creating a rational-based framework for overcoming polarization. Member.

Combining machine learning and symbolic approaches for computational argumentation. Member.

International Conferences

• Explaining Online Debate Evolution under Bipolar Gradual Argumentation Semantics.
  Caren Al Anaissy and Nicolas Maudet.
  To appear in International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) 2026. [PDF]
• Uncertainty in Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks.
  Jordan Thieyre, Caren Al Anaissy, Aurélie Beynier, Sébastien Destercke, Nicolas Maudet and Srdjan Vesic.
  European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2025, (pp. 1679-1686). [Link]
• Impact Measures for Gradual Argumentation Semantics.
  Caren Al Anaissy, Jérôme Delobelle, Srdjan Vesic and Bruno Yun.
  International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2025, (pp. 69-77). [Link]
• On Learning Bipolar Gradual Argumentation Semantics with Neural Networks.
  Caren Al Anaissy, Sandeep Suntwal, Mihai Surdeanu and Srdjan Vesic.
  International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) 2024, (pp. 493-499). SCITEPRESS. [Link]
• On the Feasibility of Learning Bipolar Gradual Argumentation Semantics Using Neural Architectures.
  Caren Al Anaissy, Sandeep Suntwal, Mihai Surdeanu and Srdjan Vesic.
  International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART) 2024, (pp. 176-190). Springer Nature Switzerland. [Link]
• A Principle-Based Analysis of Bipolar Argumentation Semantics.
  Liuwen Yu, Caren Al Anaissy, Srdjan Vesic, Xu Li and Leendert van der Torre.
  European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA) 2023, (pp. 209-224). Springer Nature Switzerland. [Link]

National Conferences

• Cadres d’argumentation bipolaire quantitatifs avec incertitude.
  Jordan Thieyre, Caren Al Anaissy, Aurélie Beynier, Sébastien Destercke, Nicolas Maudet and Srdjan Vesic.
  Journées d’Intelligence Artificielle Fondamentale (JIAF) 2025, (pp. 130-131). [Link]
• Exploration des Sémantiques d’Argumentation Bipolaire : Une Analyse Basée Sur Les Principes.
  Liuwen Yu, Caren Al Anaissy, Srdjan Vesic, Xu Li and Leendert van der Torre.
  Journées d’Intelligence Artificielle Fondamentale (JIAF) 2023, (pp. 39-41). [Link]

International Workshops

• Human Compliance with Normative Principles in Argumentation: Effects of Naturalness Bias and Graphical Representation.
  Marija Petrović, Predrag Teovanović, Danka Purić, Bruno Yun, Caren Al Anaissy, Sébastien Konieczny and Srdjan Vesic.
  International Workshop on Argumentation for eXplainable AI (ARGXAI) 2024, (pp. 16-28) CEUR Workshop Proceedings. [Link]
• Towards Ethical Argumentative Persuasive Chatbots.
  Caren Al Anaissy, Srdjan Vesic and Nathalie Nevejans.
  International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE) 2023, (pp. 141-160). Springer Nature Switzerland. [Link]

• Project: Intelligent Facilitation of Deliberation in Online Debates.
• Supervisor: Nicolas Maudet (LIP6, CNRS & Sorbonne Université).
• Funding: PEPR eNSEMBLE - PC4: CONGRATS (Collaboration à grande échelle).

Teaching computer science material alongside postdoctoral research.

Conducting research and teaching computer science material.

Research on artificial intelligence and computational argumentation.

• Title: Principles and Practices for Bipolar Semantics and Impact Measures in Computational Argumentation.
• Supervisors: Srdjan Vesic (CRIL, CNRS & Université d’Artois) & Nathalie Nevejans (CDEP, Université d’Artois).
• Funding: VIVAH (Université d’Artois & Région Hauts-de-France).

Teaching computer science material.

• Title: Training Handwriting Recognition System with Uncertain Data from Crowd-Sourcing.
• Context: ANR CIRESFI project – Handwriting recognition on historical archives ("Comédie Italienne", 17th century).
• Supervisors: Harold Mouchère (LS2N, Université de Nantes).

• Thesis Title: Principles and Practices for Bipolar Semantics and Impact Measures in Computational Argumentation.
• Supervisors: Srdjan Vesic (Director) and Nathalie Nevejans (Co-director).
• Funding: VIVAH (Université d’Artois & Région Hauts-de-France).
• Jury Members: Sébastien Konieczny (Chair), Leila Amgoud (Reviewer), Anthony Hunter (Reviewer), Nico Potyka (Examiner).
• Defense Date: July 4, 2024.
• Manuscript: Available online at theses.fr

Erasmus student exchange program. Completed as part of a dual-degree track with the Lebanese University.

Note: The 5th year of engineering was completed as an exchange student at the University of Nantes. The Master 2 internship also served as the Final Year Project for this Engineering Degree.

• Title: Training Handwriting Recognition System with Uncertain Data from Crowd-Sourcing.
• Supervisor: Harold Mouchère.
• Context: ANR CIRESFI Project – Focused on offline handwriting recognition for 17th-century financial archives of the "Comédie Italienne".
• Objectives: Proposed a recognition system trained using uncertain annotations (multiple annotations per image).

Total teaching experience covering core Computer Science material from first (L1) to third (L3) year of Bachelor in Computer Science.

Reviewing & Program Committees

Contributing to the peer-review process for international journals and conferences.

• International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) Reviewer, 2025
• ArgU 2025: 1st International Workshop on Argumentation for Understanding PC Member & Reviewer, 2025
  (Co-located with ECSQARU 2025)

Science Communication & Outreach

Participated in the regional final of the "My Thesis in 180 Seconds" competition, presenting PhD research to a non-specialist audience in under three minutes.