DescriptionBasic design of artificial deliberative agents (ADAs) for argumentation.png
English: "As illustrated in Figure 1, ADAs have a limited (and changing) perspective of a conversation, which determines their opinion vis-à-vis the central claims of the debate. In addition, ADAs may contribute to a conversation by generating novel posts conditional on their current perspective.
Now, what is the motivation for developing ADAs and natural-language models of argumentative opinion dynamics in the first place? A first motive for studying natural-language ABMAs is to de-idealize formal models and to test their results' structural robustness. If, for example, groups with over-confident agents typically bi-polarize in formal models but not in their natural-language counterparts, the original result is not robust and ought to be treated with care. A second motive is to "reclaim new territory" by computationally investigating novel phenomena that have not been (and possibly cannot be) represented by formal models. Metaphorical language [Hesse,1988], slurs [Rappaport, 2019], framing effects [Grüne-Yanoff, 2016], or the invention of entirely new arguments [Walton and Gordon, 2019] is difficult to represent in formal models, but relatively easy in natural-language ones"
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"...which we use to power natural-language agent-based models of argumentation"; From the study "Natural-Language Multi-Agent Simulations of Argumentative Opinion Dynamics"