Dialogue Games for Agent Argumentation

McBurney, Peter; Parsons, Simon

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-98197-0_13

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“…Our approach will interpret proposals for plans in terms of dialogue games between agents defending and attacking the proposal. Our work in this paper can therefore be seen as part of a larger effort to develop computational semantics for plans of actions between interacting software agents [13].…”

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Arguments over Co-operative Plans

Medellin-Gasque

Atkinson

Bench‐Capon

2012

Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation

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Abstract. Autonomous planning agents that share a common goal should be able to propose, justify and share information about plans. To reach an agreement on the best plan, strategies for persuasion and negotiation can be used by agents in order to share their beliefs about the world and resolve conflicts between the agents. We present an argumentation scheme and associated critical questions to create and justify plan proposals where plans are combinations of actions requiring several agents for their execution. An analysis of different ways in which actions can combine is presented and then associated with the argumentation scheme and the critical questions. We believe these elements are necessary to enable agents to engage in rational debate over co-operative plan proposals.

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Arguments over Co-operative Plans

Medellin-Gasque

Atkinson

Bench‐Capon

2012

Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation

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“…Dialogue games have been used to study human-computer interaction to explain sequences of human utterances and model complex human reasoning (Levin & Moore, 1978;McBurney & Parsons, 2009;Yuan, Moore, Reed, Ravenscroft & Maudet, 2011). Dialogue games are useful because they provide stereotypic patterns of dialogue.…”

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A computational model of argumentation in agreement negotiation processes

Koit¹,

Õim²

2014

Argument & Computation

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The paper describes a computational model that we have implemented in an experimental dialogue system (DS). Communication in a natural language between two participants A and B is considered, where A has a communicative goal that his/her partner B will make a decision to perform an action D. A argues the usefulness, pleasantness, etc. of D (including its consequences), in order to guide B's reasoning in a desirable direction. A computational model of argumentation is developed, which includes reasoning. Our model is based on the studies in the common-sense conception of how the human mind works in such situations. Theoretical considerations are followed by an analysis of Estonian spoken human-human dialogues. First, calls of clients to travel agencies are studied where a travel agent could use various arguments in order to persuade a client to book a trip. The analysis demonstrates that clients are primarily looking for information; argumentation occurs in a small number of dialogues. Secondly, calls of sales clerks of an educational company to different organisations are analysed where training courses are offered. The sales clerks, unlike the travel agents, try to persuade clients, stressing the usefulness of a course. Finally, face-to-face conversations are studied where one participant is arguing for an action by the partner. The corpus analysis shows that our model covers simple situations occurred in actual dialogues. Therefore, we have chosen a limited application of the model in a DS -communication trainer. The computer can optionally perform A's or B's role and the interaction with the user in Estonian follows norms and rules of human-human communication.

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“…Within the field of agent communications and agent argumentation, considerable recent work over the last decade has explored formal dialogues, and particularly dialogues over actions (see [24] for a review). McBurney et al presented a formal framework for agent deliberation dialogues-dialogues about what to do in some situationin [25].…”

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Towards Agent Dialogue as a Tool for Capturing Software Design Discussions

Black

McBurney

Zschaler

2014

Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation

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Abstract. Software design is an important creative step in the engineering of software systems, yet we know surprisingly little about how humans actually do it. While it has been argued before that there is a need for formal frameworks to help capture design dialogues in a format amenable to analysis, there is almost no work that actually attempts to do so. In this paper, we take a first step in this direction by exploring the application of concepts from agent dialogues to the description of actual design dialogues between human software designers. We have found that this can be done in principle and present a set of dialogue moves that we have found useful in the coding of an example dialogue. Through this formulation of the dialogue, we were able to identify some interesting patterns of moves and dialogue structures. More importantly, we believe that such a representation of design dialogues provides a good basis for a better understanding of how designers interact.

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Dialogue Games for Agent Argumentation

Cited by 84 publications

References 55 publications

Arguments over Co-operative Plans

Arguments over Co-operative Plans

A computational model of argumentation in agreement negotiation processes

Towards Agent Dialogue as a Tool for Capturing Software Design Discussions

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