Learning to adapt to unknown users: Referring expression generation in spoken dialogue systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 69-78

  Janarthanam, Srinivasan ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR; ADAPTIVE POLICY; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; DOMAIN EXPERTISE; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION; RL FRAMEWORK; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS; USER SIMULATION; USER-ADAPTIVE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 79952812994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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