Optimising information presentation for spoken dialogue systems

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1009-1018

  Rieser, Verena ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^b   Liu, Xingkun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE SELECTION; HUMAN BEHAVIOURS; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; OPTIMISATIONS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING METHOD; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; WIZARD OF OZ;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 79952806959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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