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CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver ...
LREC
2008
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14 years 8 days ago
What is poorly Said is a Little Funny
We implement several different methods for generating jokes in English. The common theme is to intentionally produce poor utterances by breaking Grice's maxims of conversatio...
Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki
LREC
2010
179views Education» more  LREC 2010»
14 years 9 days ago
Evaluation Protocol and Tools for Question-Answering on Speech Transcripts
Question Answering (QA) technology aims at providing relevant answers to natural language questions. Most Question Answering research has focused on mining document collections co...
Nicolas Moreau, Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa, Sop...
LREC
2010
164views Education» more  LREC 2010»
14 years 9 days ago
Practical Evaluation of Speech Recognizers for Virtual Human Dialogue Systems
We perform a large-scale evaluation of multiple off-the-shelf speech recognizers across diverse domains for virtual human dialogue systems. Our evaluation is aimed at speech recog...
Xuchen Yao, Pravin Bhutada, Kallirroi Georgila, Ke...
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Evaluating Response Strategies in a Web-Based Spoken Dialogue Agent
While the notion of a cooperative response has been the focus of considerable research in natural language dialogue systems, there has been little empirical work demonstrating how...
Diane J. Litman, Shimei Pan, Marilyn A. Walker