Cadilhac, A., N. Asher, F. Benamara and A. Lascarides [2011] Commitments to Preferences in Dialogue, Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2011, Portland, OR.
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-system agreement and the average inter-annotator agreement show that our method is reliable.
@inproceedings{cadillac:etal:2011,
author = {Ana\"is Cadillac and Nicholas Asher and Farah Benamara and Alex Lascarides},
year = {2011},
title = {Commitments to Preferences in Dialogue},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue},
address = {Portland, OR}
}