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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications

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Influencing the Beliefs of a Dialogue Partner

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A model of argumentation dialogue which includes reasoning is introduced in the paper. The communicative goal of the initiator is to convince the partner to do an action. The choice of an argument depends, on the one hand, on the needed resources and the beliefs about the positive and negative aspects of doing the action, and on the other hand, on the result of reasoning based on these beliefs. The initiator of dialogue is using a partner model – the hypothetical beliefs about the partner who at the same time operates with the actual beliefs. Both the participants’ models are changing during a dialogue as influenced by the partners’ arguments. Two implementations have been created. In one implementation, the computer initiates a dialogue and attempts to influence the user to make a decision about doing an action. In the other implementation, the roles of the computer and the user are reversed. Interaction is text-based, participants are using ready-made sentences in natural language which are classified semantically. The paper studies how the participants are updating their beliefs in dialogue. The study is based on the interactions with our dialogue systems.

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This study was supported by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (IUT20-56), and by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies).

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  1. Winston-Salem State University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Christo Dichev

  2. Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

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Koit, M. (2016). Influencing the Beliefs of a Dialogue Partner. In: Dichev, C., Agre, G. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. AIMSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9883. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44748-3_21

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