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Much work in the area of argumentation-based dialogues between agents has been based on the influential taxonomy of dialogue types developed by Walton and Krabbe. In this paper we re-examine the Walton and Krabbe framework, concentrating on the preconditions for different types of dialogue and analyzing them in a systematic way. Doing so identifies a number of new kinds of dialogue missing from the framework. We discuss some of the more interesting of these and develop protocols for them.
This paper is a modified version of E. Cogan, S. Parsons, and P. McBurney. What kind of argument are we going to have today? In F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. P. Singh, and M. Wooldridge, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 544-551. ACM Press, 2005.
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Cogan, E., Parsons, S., McBurney, P. (2006). New Types of Inter-agent Dialogues. In: Parsons, S., Maudet, N., Moraitis, P., Rahwan, I. (eds) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. ArgMAS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11794578_10
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