Towards the Application of Argumentation-Based Dialogues for Education
Elizabeth I Sklar, Simon Parsons · 2004
This paper describes our work constructing a general framework for modeling multi agent interactions in education-related applications. We are motivated to move beyond a traditional scripted model and follow the general trend in human education towards more open, learner-centered, constructivist environments. In order to accomplish this, we need a framework in which to define general types of interactions that can occur between a learner and a tutor, as well as interactions between these agents and their sets of beliefs — not only about the knowledge domain that is the subject of the learning system, but also about each other. In this paper, we describe early work in this direction, which involves using argumentation and extending existing dialogue protocols to allow for various types of tutor-learner interactions. 1.