Modelling Attitudes of a Conversational Agent

Mare Koit

2019

Abstract

The paper introduces a work in progress on modelling of attitudes of a conversational agent in negotiation. Two kinds of attitudes are under consideration: (1) related to different aspects of a negotiation object (in our case, doing an action) which direct reasoning about the action, and (2) related to a communication partner (dominance, collaboration, communicative distance, etc.) which are modelled by using the concept of multidimensional social space. Attitudes of participants have been annotated in a small sub-corpus of the Estonian dialogue corpus. An example from the sub-corpus is presented in order to illustrate how the models describe the change of attitudes of human participants. A limited version of the model of a conversational agent is implemented on the computer. Our further aim is to develop a dialogue system to train the user’s negotiation skills by interacting with him in a natural language.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Koit M. (2019). Modelling Attitudes of a Conversational Agent. In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 2: KEOD; ISBN 978-989-758-382-7, SciTePress, pages 225-232. DOI: 10.5220/0008067102250232

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod19,
author={Mare Koit},
title={Modelling Attitudes of a Conversational Agent},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 2: KEOD},
year={2019},
pages={225-232},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008067102250232},
isbn={978-989-758-382-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2019) - Volume 2: KEOD
TI - Modelling Attitudes of a Conversational Agent
SN - 978-989-758-382-7
AU - Koit M.
PY - 2019
SP - 225
EP - 232
DO - 10.5220/0008067102250232
PB - SciTePress