Fast reinforcement learning of dialogue policies using stable function approximation

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3248, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-11

  Denecke, Matthias ^a   Dohsaka, Kohji ^a   Nakano, Mikio ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 26444573745     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30211-7_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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