Asher, N., E. Bonzon and A. Lascarides [2010] Extracting and Modelling Preferences from Dialogue, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Dortmund.
Dialogue moves influence and are influenced by the agents' preferences. We propose a method for modelling this interaction. We motivate and describe a recursive method for calculating the preferences that are expressed, sometimes indirectly, through the speech acts performed. These yield partial CP-nets, which provide a compact and efficient method for computing how preferences influence each other. Our study of 100 dialogues in the Verbmobil corpus can be seen as a partial vindication of using CP-nets to represent preferences.
@inproceedings{asher:etal:2010,
author = {Nicholas Asher and Elise Bonzon and Alex Lascarides},
title = {Extracting and Modelling Preferences from Dialogue},
year = {2010},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on
Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in
Knowledge-based Systems (IPMU)},
address = {Dortmund}
}