Handling Unknown User Arguments in Argumentative Dialogue Systems

In this work we introduce a scheme to handle unknown user arguments in argumentative Dialogue Systems. We consider systems based on argument games and a graph representation of argument components and discuss how a component that is not present in the latter one can be included reasonably. The proposed approach also allows for a differentiation between invalid input and new arguments as well as a reasonable system response in the latter case.

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Niklas Rach

Wolfgang Minker

Stefan Ultes

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-4

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[0001]Institute of Communications Engineering, Ulm University

[0002]Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.67

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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D. BraunA. Hernandez-MendezF. MatthesM. Langen 2017 Evaluating natural language understanding services for conversational question answering systems In Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue 174 185
Y. LiD. McLeanZ. A. BandarJ. D. O’sheaK. Crockett 2006 Sentence similarity based on semantic nets and corpus statistics IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering 18 8 1138 1150
H. Prakken 2005 Coherence and flexibility in dialogue games for argumentation. Journal of logic and computation 15 6 1009 1040
H. Prakken 2000 September On dialogue systems with speech acts, arguments, and counterarguments In European Workshop on Logics in Artificial Intelligence 224 238 Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
N. RachW. MinkerS. Ultes 2017 Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System In Proceedings of 17th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA’17)
N. RachW. MinkerS. Ultes 2018 Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems. Presented at International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS) 2018 Singapore
G. RakshitK. K. BowdenL. ReedA. MisraM. Walker 2017 Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03167
C. StabI. Gurevych 2014 Annotating argument components and relations in persuasive essays In Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers 1501 1510
T. YuanD. MooreC. ReedA. RavenscroftN. Maudet 2011 Informal logic dialogue games in human–computer dialogue The Knowledge Engineering Review 26 2 159-174

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[1] D. BraunA. Hernandez-MendezF. MatthesM. Langen 2017 Evaluating natural language understanding services for conversational question answering systems In Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue 174 185

[2] Y. LiD. McLeanZ. A. BandarJ. D. O’sheaK. Crockett 2006 Sentence similarity based on semantic nets and corpus statistics IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering 18 8 1138 1150

[3] H. Prakken 2005 Coherence and flexibility in dialogue games for argumentation. Journal of logic and computation 15 6 1009 1040

[4] H. Prakken 2000 September On dialogue systems with speech acts, arguments, and counterarguments In European Workshop on Logics in Artificial Intelligence 224 238 Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

[5] N. RachW. MinkerS. Ultes 2017 Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System In Proceedings of 17th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA’17)

[6] N. RachW. MinkerS. Ultes 2018 Utilizing Argument Mining Techniques for Argumentative Dialogue Systems. Presented at International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS) 2018 Singapore

[7] G. RakshitK. K. BowdenL. ReedA. MisraM. Walker 2017 Debbie, the Debate Bot of the Future arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03167

[8] C. StabI. Gurevych 2014 Annotating argument components and relations in persuasive essays In Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers 1501 1510

[9] T. YuanD. MooreC. ReedA. RavenscroftN. Maudet 2011 Informal logic dialogue games in human–computer dialogue The Knowledge Engineering Review 26 2 159-174

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