This paper presents strategies and conditions for non-failing persuasion using a dialogue model using argumentation. A novel concept of the predicted knowledge of the other agent participating in the dialogue is introduced. In the dialogue model, an agent’s knowledge is updated as the dialogue proceeds; an argumentation framework is constructed from the current knowledge; and only the content o...

This paper addresses conversational interaction in useradaptive recommender systems. By collecting and analyzing a movie recommendation dialogue corpus, two initiative types that need to be accommodated in a conversational recommender dialogue system are identified. The initiative types are modeled in a dialogue strategy suitable for implementation. The approach is exemplified by the MADFILM mo...

This study attempts to elicit the perceptions and attitudes of EFL learners of the Preparatory Year Program at KSU towards dialogue journal writing as an EFL learning strategy. The descriptive research design used incorporated both qualitative and quantitative instruments to accomplish the objectives of the study. A learners’ attitude questionnaire and follow-up interviewswith learners from a r...

We present a proof system which implements dialogue logic as originally developed by Lorenzen. Intuitionistic and classic logic are pre-de ned. A rule language allows to easily de ne dialogue rules for other logics. DiaLog provides multi-sorted logic. The system supports fully automated and interactive proof search. A user-friendly graphical interface displays the dialogue tableau, a dialogue t...

Information about the quality of a Spoken Dialogue System (SDS) is usually used only for comparing SDSs with each other or manually improving the dialogue strategy. This information, however, provides a means for inherently improving the dialogue performance by adapting the Dialogue Manager during the interaction accordingly. For a quality metric to be suitable, it must suffice certain conditio...

This paper describes a French Spoken Dialogue System (SDS) named NASTIA (Negotiating Appointment SeTting InterfAce). Appointment scheduling is a hybrid task halfway between slot-filling and negotiation. NASTIA implements three different negotiation strategies. These strategies were tested on 1734 dialogues with 385 users who interacted at most 5 times with the SDS and gave a rating on a scale o...

Throughout this congress we have heard many moving testimonies. On Thursday the stories highlighted the presence of Jesus among the peoples of Asia, especially among the poor and marginalised. On Friday stories witnessed to Jesus amidst the great religions of Asia. Today testimonies have focused upon the cultures of Asia. In day-to-day life we do not neatly separate these three aspects. As the ...

This work describes an strategy for the integration of speech recognition, unificationbased parsing and dialogue managent and its application to spoken dialogue systems. The strategy is based on the use of the notion of breaking points implemented by the SCP (Syntactic Constraints Propagation) parsing algorithm. This format allows the representation of word lattices and their direct manipulatio...

This Show & Tell demo paper describes a multi-strategy spoken dialogue system for restaurant recommendation and reservation in Singapore. The system uses a three phased dialogue strategy for recommendation, selection and booking. Given its simple architecture, it can be easily adapted to deploy restaurant recommendation services for any city, as far as the required regional data is available.

Agents, in a multi agent system, communicate with each other through the process of exchanging messages which is called dialogue. Multi agent organization is generally used to optimize agents’ communications. Holonic organization demonstrates a self-similar recursive and hierarchical structure in which each holon may include some other holons. In a holonic system, lateral communication occurs b...