Parameter learning for POMDP spoken dialogue models

2010 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 271-276

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialogue management; Expectation propagation; POMDP; Spoken language understanding

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; EXPECTATION PROPAGATION; OFFLINE; PARAMETER LEARNING; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; POMDP; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; USER MODELS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; SEMANTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79951792262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2010.5700863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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