Cilia Witteman

This paper proposes a dialogue game in which coherent conversational sequences at the speech act level are described of agents that become aware they have a disagreement and settle the dispute by agreeing to disagree when they believe insufficient propositions to resolve the situation. A dialogue game is formu-lated in which agents can offer informa-tion possibly resulting in non-reconcilable, mutually inconsistent belief states. These states are handled by a dialogue rule that defines when to ‘agree to disagree’.