A probabilistic framework for dialog simulation and optimal strategy learning

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 589-599

  Pietquin, Olivier ^a,b   Dutoit, Thierry ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dialog evaluation; Dialog simulation; Dialog strategy learning; Speech processing; Spoken dialog systems

Indexed keywords

DIALOG EVALUATION; DIALOG SIMULATION; DIALOG STRATEGY LEARNING; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 33750253118     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.855836     Document Type: Article

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