ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
We address several challenges for applying statistical dialog managers based on Partially Observable Markov Models to real world problems: to deal with large numbers of concepts, ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We investigate the clarification strategies exhibited by a hybrid POMDP dialog manager based on data obtained from a phone-based user study. The dialog manager combines task struc...
CSL
2008
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
2008
Springer
We present a new methodology of user simulation applied to the evaluation and refinement of stochastic dialog systems. Common weaknesses of these systems are the scarceness of the...
DLOG
1998
14 years 1 months ago
1998
We present work in progress on abstracting dialog managers from their domain in order to implement a dialog manager development tool which takes (among other data) a domain descri...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This work presents an agenda-based approach to improve the robustness of the dialog manager by using dialog examples and n-best recognition hypotheses. This approach supports n-be...
HRI
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
2007
ACM
Intelligent planning algorithms such as the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) have succeeded in dialog management applications [10, 11, 12] because of their rob...