Author:
Mare Koit
Affiliation:
Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Liivi 2, Tartu and Estonia
Keyword(s):
Negotiation, Argument, Dialogue Model, Reasoning, Attitude, Knowledge Representation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
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Artificial Intelligence
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Human-Computer Interaction
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Intelligent User Interfaces
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Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Natural Language Processing
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Pattern Recognition
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
We are modelling argument-based negotiation where the initiator is convincing the partner to do an action. The initiator is using a partner model which evaluates the hypothetical attitudes of the partner related to the action under consideration. The partner when reasoning operates with an actual model – the actual attitudes which still are hidden from the initiator. Both models are changing during negotiation as influenced by the presented arguments. The choice of an argument by a negotiation participant depends, on one hand, on the attitudes related to the action, and on the other hand, on the result of reasoning based on these attitudes. The paper studies how the participants are changing their attitudes during a dialogue. A human-human dialogue illustrates the results of the analysis of a small dialogue corpus. A limited version of the model is implemented on the computer.