Conversational Topics Handle Social Relationships

Everyday a lot of subjects of interest (here called topics) are published on the Web and compete to reach an audience and to achieve their communicative goal. We propose an approach to these issues, based on two main propositions: First, each topic is personified by a conversational agent capable of interacting with users about the topic, Second, agent´s reactions to users´ requests involve traditional rational reactions but also relational reactions taking into account social roles.