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Extracting and Modelling Preferences from Dialogue

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Dialogue moves influence and are influenced by the agents’ preferences. We propose a method for modelling this interaction. We motivate and describe a recursive method for calculating the preferences that are expressed, sometimes indirectly, through the speech acts performed. These yield partial CP-nets, which provide a compact and efficient method for computing how preferences influence each other. Our study of 100 dialogues in the Verbmobil corpus can be seen as a partial vindication of using CP-nets to represent preferences.

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  1. IRIT, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Nicholas Asher

  2. LIPADE, Université Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75006, Paris, France

    Elise Bonzon

  3. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, Scotland, UK

    Alex Lascarides

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  1. Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Str., 35032, Marburg, Germany

    Eyke Hüllermeier

  2. Fakultät Informatik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Rudolf Kruse

  3. Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Str. 4, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Frank Hoffmann

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Asher, N., Bonzon, E., Lascarides, A. (2010). Extracting and Modelling Preferences from Dialogue. In: Hüllermeier, E., Kruse, R., Hoffmann, F. (eds) Computational Intelligence for Knowledge-Based Systems Design. IPMU 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14049-5_56

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