Educational Human-computer Debate: a Computational Dialectics Approach
Tangming Yuan, David Moore, A. J. C. Grierson, Dialogue Typology · 2002
Theories of learning suggest that dialogue is important in shaping conceptual development. However, there is widespread de- bate as to the forms of dialogue and which are effective in an educa- tional context. In addressing these issues, we have analysed current knowledge concerning dialectics in philosophy and education. We propose to adopt a computational dialectical approach to study the issues related to the development of an intelligent debating system, which is argued to have potential educational benefit. This approach focuses on using models of dialogue developed in the area of in- formal logic, which prescribe rules to regulate the evolving dialogue. Our proposed research concerns three main issues in the area of com- putational dialectics: dialogue model, debating heuristic theory and dialectical relevance.