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ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Setting Up User Action Probabilities in User Simulations for Dialog System Development
User simulations are shown to be useful in spoken dialog system development. Since most current user simulations deploy probability models to mimic human user behaviors, how to se...
Hua Ai, Diane J. Litman
CIARP
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Statistical User Simulation Technique for the Improvement of a Spoken Dialog System
Abstract. In this paper, we present a statistical approach for the automatic generation of dialogs by means of a user simulator. This technique can be used to generate dialogs with...
Lluís Hurtado, David Griol, Emilio Sanchis,...
KDD
2012
ACM
179views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
12 years 1 months ago
Transparent user models for personalization
Personalization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in our daily online experience. While such technology is critical for helping us combat the overload of information we face, in many cas...
Khalid El-Arini, Ulrich Paquet, Ralf Herbrich, Jur...
RECSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Regret-based optimal recommendation sets in conversational recommender systems
Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier
ENVSOFT
2010
161views more  ENVSOFT 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Graphical user interface for rapid set-up of SHETRAN physically-based river catchment model
The SHETRAN physically-based distributed rainfall-runoff modelling system gives detailed simulations in time and space of water flow and sediment and solute transport in river cat...
Stephen J. Birkinshaw, Philip James, John Ewen