A multi-agent system for nested inquiry dialogues

Abstract

Generating and evaluating arguments are two important aspects in argumentation-based dialogue systems. In current research, however, generating and evaluating arguments are normally treated separately. Also, there are rarely implementations of the approaches in real applications. In this paper, we generate inquiry dialogues and evaluate arguments during the dialogue procedure simultaneously. Furthermore, we have implemented this approach in a real medical domain and demonstrated a practical example extracted from this application. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.