A human–computer debating system prototype and its dialogue strategies
✍ Scribed by Tangming Yuan; David Moore; Alec Grierson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 224 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0884-8173
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✦ Synopsis
This article reports research concerning issues involved in adopting a computational dialectics approach to develop a human-computer debating system for educational debate. In particular, we propose a suitable dialogue model and a set of computationally usable strategic heuristics to enable the computer to engage its users in debate on a controversial issue. The system has been fully implemented. It is anticipated that this work will contribute toward the development of human-computer dialogue in general and of computer-based educational dialogue in particular and help to illuminate research issues in the field of dialectics itself.