Effective handling of dialogue state in the hidden information state POMDP-based dialogue manager

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Gašić, Milica ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialogue belief monitoring; Dialogue modelling; Dialogue state representation; POMDP; Reinforcement learning; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE BELIEF MONITORING; DIALOGUE MODELLING; POMDP; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; STATE REPRESENTATION;

MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 80052060028     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1966407.1966409     Document Type: Article

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