Request for Action Reconsidered as a Dialogue Game Based on Commitments

This paper follows recent works in the eld of dialectical models of inter-agent communication. The request action as proposed by Winograd & Flores is reconsidered in an original dialogue game framework, as a composition of di erent basic games. These basic games are based on commitments of participants and are handled through a contextualization game which aims at de ning how games are handled (opened, closed, etc.) through the conversation. We show how such model for conversation o ers more exibility, considers unexpected messages, and uses various small conversation policies. Finally, we give an overview on the game simulator that we are currently developping.