HCI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
2011
Using Web information in example-based dialogue systems is considered to be a good way to increase the topical relevance of system responses. However, Web content is mostly written...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
The taking of turns to speak is an intrinsic property of conversation. It is expected that models of taking turns, providing a prior distribution over conversational form, can red...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
This paper describes the design of a backchannel feedback corpus and its evaluation, aiming at realizing in-car spoken dialogue systems with high responsiveness. We constructed ou...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
We present new results from a real-user evaluation of a data-driven approach to learning user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. ...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
We present a data-driven approach to learn user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. Referring expressions can be difficult to unde...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Although dialogue systems have been an area of research for decades, finding accurate ways of evaluating different systems is still a very active subfield since many leading metho...
CSL
2010
Springer
2010
Springer
The Hidden Information State model: A practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management
13 years 11 months ago
This paper explains how Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) can provide a principled mathematical framework for modelling the inherent uncertainty in spoken di...
CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper describes a statistically motivated framework for performing real-time dialogue state updates and policy learning in a spoken dialogue system. The framework is based on...
NAACL
2001
14 years 24 days ago
2001
Developing dialogue systems is a complex process. In particular, designing efficient dialogue management strategies is often difficult as there are no precise guidelines to develo...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
14 years 25 days ago
2006
ACL Anthology
Given the growing complexity of tasks that spoken dialogue systems are trying to handle, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been increasingly used as a way of automatically learning ...