Commitments to Preferences in Dialogue

Anaïs Cadilhac, Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara, Alex Lascarides

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Abstract

We propose a method for modelling how dialogue moves influence and are influenced by the agents’ preferences. We extract constraints on preferences and dependencies among them, even when they are expressed indirectly, by exploiting discourse structure. Our method relies on a study of 20 dialogues chosen at random from the Verbmobil corpus. We then test the algorithms predictions against the judgements of naive annotators on 3 random unseen dialogues. The average annotator-algorithm agreement and the average inter-annotator agreement show that our method is reliable.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference
Place of PublicationPortland, Oregon
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Pages204-215
Number of pages12
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2011

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