Authors:
Mare Koit
and
Haldur Õim
Affiliation:
University of Tartu, Estonia
Keyword(s):
Debate, Argument, Dialogue Model, Knowledge Representation, Human-Human Dialogue.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Enterprise Software Technologies
;
Human-Machine Cooperation
;
Intelligent Problem Solving
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Representation
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In the paper, a model of debate is developed which includes a model of argument. When starting interaction, the participants have opposite communicative goals. They are exchanging arguments and counter-arguments and one of them has finally to abandon his or her initial communicative goal, i.e. one participant ‘wins’ and another ‘loses’. An analysis of human-human dialogue corpus is carried out in order to evaluate the suitability of the model for describing natural debates. A computer implementation is introduced. Notions of negotiation, debate and argument are discussed.