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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.
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Asher, N., Bonzon, E., Lascarides, A. (2010). Extracting and Modelling Preferences from Dialogue. In: Hüllermeier, E., Kruse, R., Hoffmann, F. (eds) Computational Intelligence for Knowledge-Based Systems Design. IPMU 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6178. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14049-5_56
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