Modelling user behaviour in the his-pomdp dialogue manager

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 121-124

  Keizer, S ^a   Gasic, M ^a   Mairesse, F ^a   Thomson, B ^a   Yu, K ^a   Young, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation; POMDPs; Spoken dialogue systems; User modelling

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE SCORE; DIALOGUE MANAGER; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HIDDEN INFORMATION; N-BEST LIST; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; POMDPS; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; USER BEHAVIOUR; USER MODELLING;

MANAGERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 67649525034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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