An Assessment of Dialogue Strategies for a Human Computer Debating System, via Computational Agents

This paper reports our research concerning dialogue strategies suitable for adoption by a human computer debating system. In particular, we propose a set of strategic heuristics for a computer to adopt to enable it to function as a dialogue participant. We also consider means of constructing a set of computational agents operationalising the proposed strategy and means of analysing the agent-generated dialogues to facilitate the evaluation of the proposed strategy. It is anticipated that this work will contribute toward the development of human-computer dialogue systems and help to illuminate research issues in the field of strategies in dialectical systems.