A Sound and Complete Dialogue System for Handling Misunderstandings

Andreas Xydis*, Christopher Hampson, Sanjay Modgil, Elizabeth Black

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Abstract

A common assumption for argumentation dialogues is that any argument exchanged is complete, i.e. its premises entail its claim. But in real world dialogues, agents commonly exchange enthymemes - arguments with incomplete logical structure. This paper introduces a dialogue system that handles misunderstandings that may occur when there is a mismatch between what a participant excludes from an argument and what her interlocutor assumes to be the missing information. We also introduce a mechanism for determining the acceptability status of the dialogue moves so that, under certain conditions, the status of moves made during a dialogue conforming to our system, corresponds with the status of arguments in the Dung argument framework instantiated by the contents of the moves made at that stage in the dialogue.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Fourth International Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation 2022
PublisherCEUR-WS
Pages19-32
Number of pages14
Volume3236
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event4th International Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation, SAFA 2022 - Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 Sept 2022 → …

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
PublisherCEUR-WS
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation, SAFA 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCardiff, Wales
Period13/09/2022 → …

Keywords

  • argumentation
  • ASPIC
  • dialogue
  • Enthymemes
  • framework
  • locutions

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