ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 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 9 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
13 years 11 months 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 25 days 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 29 days 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 3 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...