IEL-based Formal Dialogue System for Tutorials

Abstract

Abstract. Formal dialogue system for tutorials DL(IEL) T is introduced. The system allows for modelling certain behaviours related to questioning agendas observed in tutorial dialogues. Inferential Erotetic Logic is the underlying logic of questions used here. Tutorial dialogues retrieved from the Basic Electricity and Electronics Corpus are presented and analysed with the use of DL(IEL) T .

Managing Multiple Information Sources for a Questioning Agenda

“…One of the system's advantages is its modularity. Modifications on the level of interaction rules may be introduced to obtain the desired behaviours of our agents  e.g., to generate cooperative behaviours in a dialogue, see [11,12]. One may also adopt modified underlying normative concepts  e.g., use the e-scenario based on the notion of weak e-implication [29], falsificationist [5] or epistemic e-implication [15].…”

“…What is more, [37] introduces certain well-defined operations on e-scenarios which allows the merging of two e-scenarios or to contract a given part of escenario. They prove also useful as a normative yardstick for empirical research (like the one based on the corpus study data [11,12,13]; Games With a Purpose [14,16]; and the psychometric tool named Erotetic Reasoning Test [28,29]).…”

“…Such assumptions are usually made when IEL framework is used to model information seeking procedures (see, e.g.,[11, Chs. 3 and 4],[12] or[15], see also for the empirical study of e-scenarios based strategies[14]). …”