An Argumentation-based Framework for Designing Dialogue Strategies

Leila Amgoud (1, 2) , Nabil Hameurlain (3)

1 IRIT-ADRIA - Argumentation, Décision, Raisonnement, Incertitude et Apprentissage
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3 LIUPPA - Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

A dialogue strategy is the set of rules followed by an agent when choosing a move (act + content) during a dialogue. This paper argues that a strategy is decision problem in which an agent selects i) among the acts allowed by the protocol the best option that, according to some strategic beliefs of the agent will at least satisfy the most important strategic goals of the agent, and ii) among different alternatives (eg. different offers), the best one that according to some basic beliefs of the agent, will satisfy the functional goals of the agent. The paper proposes a formal framework based on argumentation for computing the best move to play at a given step of the dialogue.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Leila Amgoud, Nabil Hameurlain. An Argumentation-based Framework for Designing Dialogue Strategies. 17th European Conference on Artifical Intelligence (ECAI 2006), 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy. pp.713-714. ⟨hal-00408555⟩