Assigning Likelihoods to Interlocutors' Beliefs and Arguments
نویسندگان
چکیده
This paper proposes mechanisms for agents to model other agents’ beliefs and arguments, thus enabling agents to anticipate their interlocutors’ arguments in dialogues, which in turn facilitates strategising and the use of enthymemes. In contrast with existing works on “opponent modelling” that treat arguments as abstract entities, the likelihood that an interlocutor can construct an argument is derived from the likelihoods that it possesses the beliefs required to construct the argument. We therefore address how a modelling agent can quantify the certainty that its interlocutor possesses beliefs, based on the modeller’s previous dialogues, and the membership of its interlocutor in communities.2
منابع مشابه
Estimating Second-Order Arguments in Dialogical Settings
This paper proposes mechanisms for agents to model other agents’ arguments, so that modelling agents can anticipate the likelihood that their interlocutors can constructs arguments in dialogues. In contrast with existing works on “opponent modelling” which treat arguments as abstract entities, the likelihood that an agent can construct an argument is derived from the likelihoods that it possess...
متن کاملInvestigating disagreements through a context-specific approach: A case of Iranian L2 speakers
The current study investigated the expression of disagreement by Iranian advanced English learners. The data for the study comprised the recorded discussions of 26 male and female interlocutors in three different settings: 1) language institute, 2) home environment, and 3) university setting. Analysis of the arguments pointed to the influence of c...
متن کاملA Mechanism for Eliciting Sets of Priors
This paper describes a direct revelation mechanism for eliciting (a) decision makers’ sets of subjective prior probabilities in the model of Knightian uncertainty and (b) decision makers’ introspective beliefs about the likelihoods of their prior beliefs. The mechanism consists of two interlocking ingredients: scheme designed to reveal the range of priors of any given event and a proper scoring...
متن کاملRhetorical strategies in German argumentative dialogs
An important factor of argument mining in dialog or multilog data is the framing with which interlocutors put forth their arguments. By using rhetorical devices such as hedging or reference to the Common Ground, speakers relate themselves to their interlocutors, their arguments, and the ongoing discourse. Capitalizing on theoretical linguistic insights into the semantics and pragmatics of disco...
متن کاملWhat's in a Name? Interlocutors Dynamically Update Expectations about Shared Names
In order to refer using a name, speakers must believe that their addressee knows about the link between the name and the intended referent. In cases where speakers and addressees learned a subset of names together, speakers are adept at using only the names their partner knows. But speakers do not always share such learning experience with their conversational partners. In these situations, wha...
متن کامل