Dialectical Relevance in Persuasion Dialogue

Walton, Douglas

doi:10.22329/il.v19i2.2323

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“…dialectical relevance is made by a number of researchers (e.g. Hitchcock 1992;Walton 1999;Johnson 2000;Maudet 2001;Prakken 2001;Rehg, McBurney and Parsons 2005). (5) Defeatability.…”

Section: Experimental Set-up and Evaluative Criteriamentioning

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Assessing debate strategies via computational agents

Yuan

Moore

Grierson

2010

Argument & Computation

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This paper reports our research concerning dialogue strategies suitable for adoption by a humancomputer debating system. We propose a set of strategic heuristics for a computer to adopt to enable it to function as a dialogue participant. In particular, we consider means of assessing the proposed strategy. A system involving two agents in dialogue with each other and a humanagent debate system are constructed and subsequently used to facilitate the evaluations. The evaluations suggest that the proposed strategy can enable the computer to act as an effective dialogue participant. It is anticipated that this work will contribute towards the development of computerised dialogue systems and help to illuminate research issues concerning strategies in dialectical systems.

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“…dialectical relevance is made by a number of researchers (e.g. Hitchcock 1992;Walton 1999;Johnson 2000;Maudet 2001;Prakken 2001;Rehg, McBurney and Parsons 2005). (5) Defeatability.…”

Section: Experimental Set-up and Evaluative Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing debate strategies via computational agents

Yuan

Moore

Grierson

2010

Argument & Computation

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“…Walton 22 considers dialectical relevance in persuasion dialogue as involving "topic relevance" and "material relevance." Topic relevance captures whether a move shares some subject matter with the main topic under discussion, and material relevance captures the notion that a move is part of a chain of argumentation, which aims at supporting or denying the main claim of the dialogue.…”

Section: Dialectical Relevance Researchmentioning

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A human–computer debating system prototype and its dialogue strategies

Yuan¹,

Moore²,

Grierson³

2006

Int. J. Intell. Syst.

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This article reports research concerning issues involved in adopting a computational dialectics approach to develop a human-computer debating system for educational debate. In particular, we propose a suitable dialogue model and a set of computationally usable strategic heuristics to enable the computer to engage its users in debate on a controversial issue. The system has been fully implemented. It is anticipated that this work will contribute toward the development of human-computer dialogue in general and of computer-based educational dialogue in particular and help to illuminate research issues in the field of dialectics itself.

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“…In persuasion dialogue, the one party, called the proponent, has a particular thesis to be proved, and her goal is to use rational argumentation persuade the other party, called the respondent, to come to accept that thesis. The goal of the proponent is to prove this particular proposition that has been designated at the beginning of the dialogue as her ultimate thesis (Walton 1999). The assumption is that the respondent, at the outset, does not accept it.…”

Section: Persuasion Dialoguementioning

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Persuasion Dialogue in Online Dispute Resolution

Walton

Godden

2005

Artif Intell Law

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In this paper we show how dialogue-based theories of argumentation can contribute to the construction of effective systems of dispute resolution. Specifically we consider the role of persuasion in online dispute resolution by showing how persuasion dialogues can be functionally embedded in negotiation dialogues, and how negotiation dialogues can shift to persuasion dialogues. We conclude with some remarks on how persuasion dialogues might be modelled is such a way as to allow them to be implemented in a mechanical or computerized system of dialogue or dialogue management.Participants in the ICAIL 2003 ODR Workshop of June 28, 2003 in Edinburgh expressed the view that negotiation had dominated as the model for argumentation use in early work, and that persuasion dialogue should be stressed more as an important model as well. This paper presents a model of persuasion dialogue as an argumentation framework and shows how the model is important for ODR. Specifically, this paper considers the question of the role of persuasion dialogue in the ODR process, especially in relation to negotiation dialogue. That is, we consider how to model the functional embedding of persuasion dialogues within a negotiation dialogue, and under what circumstances a negotiation dialogue might shift to a persuasion dialogue.In the first section of this paper, we present a brief overview of ODR. The aim here is not to provide a general survey of the historical or theoretical development of ODR. Katsh and Rifkin (2001, ch. 2) have already provided a comprehensive historical overview of ODR, which will already be familiar to most readers. Rather, the point of this section is to briefly highlight a few salient features of ODR, which we feel demonstrate the need for a more indepth investigation of the normative dialogue models which contribute to dispute resolution. This leads to the next section where we note the prevalence of the negotiation dialogue in ODR, and make some observations

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Dialectical Relevance in Persuasion Dialogue

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

Assessing debate strategies via computational agents

Assessing debate strategies via computational agents

A human–computer debating system prototype and its dialogue strategies

Persuasion Dialogue in Online Dispute Resolution

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