Learning mixed initiative dialog strategies by using reinforcement learning on both conversants

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1011-1018

  English, Michael S ^a   Heeman, Peter A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATIVE TASKS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; MIXED INITIATIVE; SPECIFIC TASKS; TASK KNOWLEDGE;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 70349132784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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