Attention During Argument Generation And Presentation.
Ingrid Zukerman, Richard McConachy, Kevin B. Korb · 1998
We describe the operation of our argumentation system, and discuss its use of attentional focus during both content planning and argument presentation. During content planning, attentional focus guides an abductive process used to build-up arguments. This process is applied to a model of a user's beliefs and a normative model. During argument presentation, attentional focus supports the generation of enthymematic arguments. 1 Introduction In this paper, we describe the operation of our argument-generation system, NAG (Nice Argument Generator) . We consider its content planning and argument presentation processes, and discuss the attentional mechanism used in both of these processes. Given a goal proposition, NAG's objective is to generate a nice argument for it, by which we mean one which achieves a balance between what is normatively justifiable and what persuades the interlocutor. To this end, NAG consults a normative model, which contains our best understanding of the domain ...