From Study of Human-human Dialogues to Reasoning Model - Conversational Agent in Argumentation Dialogue

Mare Koit, Haldur Õim

2013

Abstract

We study human-human dialogues where one of the participants tries to influence the reasoning process of the dialogue partner in order to force the partner to make a decision to perform an action. Our further aim is to implement a dialogue system which would interact with a user in natural language. A model of the motivational sphere of a reasoning subject will be presented as a vector which consists of evaluations of different aspects of the action under consideration. Three reasoning procedures will be introduced, each of which is triggered by a so-called input factor. We examine the communicative strategies and communicative tactics that dialogue participants use to achieve their communicative goals. The models are implemented as a computer program.

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Koit M. and Õim H. (2013). From Study of Human-human Dialogues to Reasoning Model - Conversational Agent in Argumentation Dialogue . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-39-6, pages 210-216. DOI: 10.5220/0004195902100216


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@conference{icaart13,
author={Mare Koit and Haldur Õim},
title={From Study of Human-human Dialogues to Reasoning Model - Conversational Agent in Argumentation Dialogue},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={210-216},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004195902100216},
isbn={978-989-8565-39-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - From Study of Human-human Dialogues to Reasoning Model - Conversational Agent in Argumentation Dialogue
SN - 978-989-8565-39-6
AU - Koit M.
AU - Õim H.
PY - 2013
SP - 210
EP - 216
DO - 10.5220/0004195902100216