Combining reinforcement learning with information-state update rules

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 268-275

  Heeman, Peter A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL FRAMEWORK; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; INFORMATION STATE; USER BEHAVIORS; USER SIMULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 70349253156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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