Integrating expert knowledge into POMDP optimization for spoken dialog systems

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-08-01, Issue , 2008, Pages 61-66

  Williams, Jason D ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BUSINESS RULES; COMMON PROBLEMS; DIALOG SYSTEMS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; OPTIMAL ACTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; REAL-WORLD; SEARCH SPACES; SIMPLE APPROACH; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; UNIFIED ARCHITECTURE; VALUE FUNCTIONS;

CONTROLLERS;

OPTIMIZATION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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