Towards a Testbed for Multi-party Dialogues

In many situations conversations involve more than two parties. However, most research on communication modelling in e.g. multi-agent systems limits itself to conversations between two parties at a time. Very little research has been done yet on modelling multi-party dialogues. In this paper we first explore the differences between two party and multi-party dialogues and we indicate a number of issues that arise when considering dialogues between more than two parties. Then we take some steps towards creating a testbed in which these issues can be explored and theory on multi-party dialogues can be developed.

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