Evaluating Conversational Success: Weighted Message Exchange Games

Nicholas Asher (1, 2) , Soumya Paul (1)

1 IRIT-MELODI - MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

We analyze evaluations of conversationalsuccess and how such evaluations relateto notions of discourse content and struc-ture. To do so, we extend the framework ofMessage Exchange (ME) games by addingweights or scores to the players’ movesand then accumulating these weights us-ing discounting to evaluate a conversation-alist’s performance. We illustrate our anal-ysis on a fragment of a recent political de-bate.

Mots clés: Dialogue

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Nicholas Asher, Soumya Paul. Evaluating Conversational Success: Weighted Message Exchange Games. 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2016), Jul 2016, Rutgers, New Jersey, United States. pp.55-64. ⟨hal-02354391⟩