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ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Mixture Model POMDPs for Efficient Handling of Uncertainty in Dialogue Management
In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
James Henderson, Oliver Lemon
UMUAI
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
An Evidential Model for Tracking Initiative in Collaborative Dialogue Interactions
In this paper, we argue for the need to distinguish between task initiative and dialogue initiative, and present an evidential model for tracking shifts in both types of initiativ...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Michael K. Brown
CSL
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A conversation acts model for generating spoken dialogue contributions
In this paper, we describe a generation system for spoken dialogue that not only produces coherent, informative and responsive dialogue contributions, but also explicitly models h...
Amanda Stent
JAIR
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...
Marilyn A. Walker
ISMIS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Automating Spoken Dialogue Systems
Abstract. Spoken dialogue interfaces apply in a number of applications. Engaging in meaningful conversation presupposes the ability to recognize and generate different conversatio...
Mona Singh, James Barnett, Munindar P. Singh