Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a di...
Satinder P. Singh, Diane J. Litman, Michael J. Kea...
This paper discusses how Information Extraction is used to understand and manage Dialogue in the EU-funded Companions project. This will be discussed with respect to the Senior Co...
Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, Hugo Pinto, Yori...
In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
This paper investigates the problem of bootstrapping a statistical dialogue manager without access to training data and proposes a new probabilistic agenda-based method for simula...
Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, ...
Abstract. Research in dialogue systems has been moving towards reusable and adaptable architectures for managing dialogue execution and integrating heterogeneous subsystems. In thi...