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Increasingly research into the uses of argumentation in multi-agent dialogues takes an experimental approach. Such studies explore how agents can successfully employ argumentation besides the best and worst case situations of formal analysis. While a vital part in these experiments is influenced by the scenarios from which dialogues are generated, there is very little research on how these can be generated in a meaningful way, respecting the characteristics of the underlying dialogue problem. This paper proposes, by means of an example system for deliberation dialogues, a methodology for the construction and evaluation of a scenario generation process. It is shown how scenarios can accommodate argumentation with structured arguments and how it is tested whether the generated scenarios are interesting for experimentation.
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Kok, E.M., Meyer, JJ.C., van Oostendorp, H., Prakken, H., Vreeswijk, G.A.W. (2012). A Methodology for the Generation of Multi-agent Argumentation Dialogue Scenarios. In: Cossentino, M., Kaisers, M., Tuyls, K., Weiss, G. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems. EUMAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34799-3_11
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