User simulation for spoken dialogue systems: Learning and evaluation

INTERSPEECH 2006 and 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, INTERSPEECH 2006 - ICSLP

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1065-1068

  Georgila, Kallirroi ^a   Henderson, James ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialogue systems; Evaluation metrics; Learning and evaluation of dialogue strategies; User simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

APPROPRIATE METRICS; DIALOGUE STRATEGY; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; EVALUATION METRICS; LINEAR MODELING; PRECISION AND RECALL; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; USER SIMULATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 38449100977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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