Effects of the user model on simulation-based learning of dialogue strategies

Proceedings of ASRU 2005: 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 220-225

  Schatzmann, Jost ^a   Stuttle, Matthew N ^a   Weilhammer, Karl ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

ACTUAL USER TRIALS; DIALOGUE STRATEGIES; LEARNED STRATEGY;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846257740     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2005.1566539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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