In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
In this paper we propose a formal specification of a persuasion protocol between autonomous agents using an approach based on social commitments and arguments. In order to be flexi...
Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin, John-Jules Ch. Mey...
Formal dialectic systems have been suggested as a means to model inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. The formal dialectic systems of Hamblin are practical models for ...
This paper describes an XPath-based discourse analysis module for Spoken Dialogue Systems that allows the dialogue author to easily manipulate and query both the user input's...
Conversations between citizens and their representatives may take a number of forms. In this paper, we consider one of these — letters between citizens and representatives — an...
Katie Greenwood, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter M...