An Argumentation-Based Multi-Agent System for eTourism Dialogue
John Avery, John L. Yearwood, Andrew M. Stranieri · 2002
This paper describes the agent-agent and agent-human communication components of a multi-agent system we have developed for facilitating dialogue and the custom delivery of tourism information. The agent-human dialogue component of our system is based around the formulation of human natural language utterances into speech acts about actual arguments based on the generic/actual argument model via grammatical and contextual parsing. Speech acts and the generic/actual argumentation model also facilitate the process of inter-agent communication and negotiation. Example dialogues are presented and early indications of their quality are very positive. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.