Scaling POMDPs for dialog management with composite summary point-based value iteration (CSPBVI)

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-06-14, Issue , 2006, Pages 37-42

  Williams, Jason D ^a   Young, Steve ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SCALABILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COMPOSITE POINT-BASED VALUE ITERATION (CSPBVI); DIALOG MANAGEMENT; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES (POMDP);

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 33847628326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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