Generating Policies for Persuasion Dialogues

Persuasion dialogues are a way of formalising the exchange of arguments between two agents. The proponent attempts to persuade their opponent to accept a specific goal argument. We build on simple strategies [2], i.e. sequences of moves (asserting sets of arguments) that the proponent commits to prior to the dialogue, to generate policies for persuasion dialogues that determine when a proponent should assert which arguments. This approach allows the proponent to react to the opponent's behaviour and thus to update their uncertain knowledge about the arguments available to the opponent.