Evaluating effectiveness and portability of reinforcement learned dialogue strategies with real users: The talk towninfo evaluation

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 178-181

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning systems; Natural language interfaces; Speech communication; Speech processing; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; DIALOGUE STRATEGIES; EVALUATION RESULTS; GENERAL METHOD; HUMAN USERS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING (RL); SPOKEN LANGUAGES; DIALOGUE STRATEGY; INFORMATION DOMAINS; LEARN+; MANAGEMENT POLICY; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION USE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 48749112832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2006.326774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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