Natural language generation as planning under uncertainty for spoken dialogue systems

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 683-691

  Rieser, Verena ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; COGNITIVE LOADS; CURRENT GENERATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NOISY FEEDBACK; PLANNING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; STATISTICAL PLANNING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78049528626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609067.1609143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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