Unleashing Argumentation Support Systems on the Web: The case of CoPe_it

Advanced argumentation support systems can rarely be found in today's World Wide Web. One reason for this situation is the fact that the Web environment - its users and available data- differs significantly from the environments in which these systems were traditionally developed and used. Efforts to bring argumentation systems to the Web must carefully consider how these systems need to change in order to be effective in this new environment. In this paper we present how such concerns have been addressed in CoPe_it!, a tool to support argumentative collaboration on the Web.