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This paper describes the agent-agent and agent-human communication components of a multi-agent system we have developed for facilitating dialogue and the custom delivery of tourism information. The agent-human dialogue component of our system is based around the formulation of human natural language utterances into speech acts about actual arguments based on the generic/actual argument model via grammatical and contextual parsing. Speech acts and the generic/actual argumentation model also facilitate the process of inter-agent communication and negotiation. Example dialogues are presented and early indications of their quality are very positive.
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Avery, J., Yearwood, J., Stranieri, A. (2002). An Argumentation-Based Multi-Agent System for eTourism Dialogue. In: Abraham, A., Köppen, M. (eds) Hybrid Information Systems. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 14. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-1782-9_36
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