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The modeling of noncooperative dialogs, as opposed to dialogs in which the goals of the participants coincide, presents novel challenges to a pragmatically oriented dialog system. Pracma models noncooperative sales dialogs. In the role of the potential buyer of a used car, the system tries to arrive at a realistic evaluation of the unknown car in spite of biased information presentation on the part of the seller. In the role of the seller, Pracma tries to form a usable model of the buyer even while using this model to manipulate the buyer's impressions. To realize this behavior, heterogeneous modules and representation formalisms cooperate within a multi-agent architecture.
This research is being supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG) in its Special Collaborative Research Program on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Systems (SFB 314), project N1, PRACMA. Substantial programming support has been provided by A. Fiedler, R. Knop, T. wagner, A. Werner, and C. Wirtz.
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Jameson, A. et al. (1994). Cooperating to be noncooperative: The dialog system PRACMA. In: Nebel, B., Dreschler-Fischer, L. (eds) KI-94: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 861. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58467-6_10
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