Author:
Mare Koit
Affiliation:
Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, J. Liivi 2, Tartu and Estonia
Keyword(s):
Conversational Agent, Negotiation, Reasoning Model, Attitude, Knowledge Representation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
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Artificial Intelligence
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Human-Machine Cooperation
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Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
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Knowledge Representation
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Natural Language Processing
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Pattern Recognition
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The paper introduces a work in progress on modelling of attitudes of a conversational agent in negotiation. Two kinds of attitudes are under consideration: (1) related to different aspects of a negotiation object (in our case, doing an action) which direct reasoning about the action, and (2) related to a communication partner (dominance, collaboration, communicative distance, etc.) which are modelled by using the concept of multidimensional social space. Attitudes of participants have been annotated in a small sub-corpus of the Estonian dialogue corpus. An example from the sub-corpus is presented in order to illustrate how the models describe the change of attitudes of human participants. A limited version of the model of a conversational agent is implemented on the computer. Our further aim is to develop a dialogue system to train the user’s negotiation skills by interacting with him in a natural language.