Efficient model learning for dialog management

HRI 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Robot as Team Member

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 65-72

  Doshi, Finale ^a   Roy, Nicholas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making under uncertainty; Human robot interaction; Model learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DECISION THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBUST CONTROL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; INTELLIGENT PLANNING ALGORITHMS; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS (POMDP); ROBUST DIALOG MANAGER;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

EID: 34548212336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1228716.1228726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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