We posit that determining the social goals and intentions of dialogue participants is crucial for understanding discourse taking place on social media. In particular, we examine the social goals of being collegial and being adversarial. Through our early experimentation, we found that speech and dialogue acts are not able to capture the complexities and nuances of the social intentions of disco...

In recent years, social commitment based approaches have been proposed to solve problems issuing from previous mentalistic based semantics for agent communication languages. This paper follows the same line of thought since it presents a dialogue game based agent communication language (called DIAGAL) which allows agents to manipulate the public layer of social commitments through dialogue, by ...

Human computer dialogue systems – despite being the subject of a long research – are limited to a few restricted domains and are still considered austere by their users. There is evidence that humans act differently when engaged in computer dialogue than during human to human dialogue (Shechtman & Horowitz 2003). This is because dialogue systems do not take into account aspects contributing to ...

The new status generated by technological advancements and changes in the global economy raises important issues on how communities and organisations need to innovate upon their traditional processes in order to adapt to the challenges of the Knowledge Society. The DialogoS+ European project aims to study the role of and promote social dialogue in the banking sector, strengthen the link between...

It has been claimed that conversations is the basic form of social organization (cf.Schegloff (1986) and it seems correct to say that conversation, or with a more general term dialogue (from the Greek dia logos through words), exhibits characteristics which are basic to social organization. It coordinates information and mutual understanding and it involves building social cohesion. This paper ...