Strategical argumentative agent for human persuasion

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Abstract

Automated agents should be able to persuade people in the same way people persuade each other - via dialogs. Today, automated persuasion modeling and research use unnatural assumptions regarding persuasive interaction, which creates doubt regarding their applicability for real-world deployment with people. In this work we present a novel methodology for persuading people through argumentative dialogs. Our methodology combines theoretical argumentation modeling, machine learning and Markovian optimization techniques that together result in an innovative agent named SPA. Two extensive field experiments, with more than 100 human subjects, show that SPA is able to persuade people significantly more often than a baseline agent and no worse than people are able to persuade each other.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
EditorsGal A. Kaminka, Maria Fox, Paolo Bouquet, Eyke Hullermeier, Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, Frank van Harmelen
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages320-328
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781614996712
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2016 - The Hague, Netherlands
Duration: 29 Aug 20162 Sep 2016

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume285

Conference

Conference22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2016
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityThe Hague
Period29/08/162/09/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence

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