Sánchez-Pi, NayatCarbó Rubiera, Javier IgnacioGriol Barres, DavidMolina López, José Manuel2014-06-162014-06-162011Demazeau, Y. et al. (eds.) (2011) Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 88), Springer, 255-264.978-3-642-19874-8 (print)978-3-642-19875-5 (online)1867-5662https://hdl.handle.net/10016/18999Proceedings of: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS 11). Salamanca, 6-8 April, 2011In this paper, we present an agent-based dialog simulation technique for learning new dialog strategies and evaluate conversational agents. Using this technique the effort necessary to acquire data required to train the dialog model and then explore new dialog strategies is considerably reduced. A set of measures has also been defined to evaluate the dialog strategy that is automatically learned and compare different dialog corpora. We have applied this technique to explore the space of possible dialog strategies and evaluate the dialogs acquired for a conversational agent that collects monitored data from patients suffering from diabetes.10 p.application/pdfeng© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin HeidelbergUser Agent SimulatorConversational AgentsDialog modelArtificial Intelligenceconference paperInformática10.1007/978-3-642-19875-5_33open access255264Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems88CC/0000017353