The Hidden information state approach to dialog management

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Young, Steve ^a   Schatzmann, Jost ^a   Weilhammer, Karl ^a   Hui, Ye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs); Statistical dialog modelling

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DIALOG MANAGEMENT; HIDDEN INFORMATION STATE (HIS) MODEL; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES (POMDP); STATISTICAL DIALOG MODELING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547552199     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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