Natural language generation as planning under uncertainty for spoken dialogue systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5790 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 105-120

  Rieser, Verena ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptivity; data driven methods; Incremental NLG; Information Presentation; Optimisation; Reinforcement Learning; Spoken Dialogue Systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVITY; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; INCREMENTAL NLG; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; OPTIMISATIONS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 77956309283     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15573-4_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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