Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference: 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group onDiscourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 116-123

  Keizer, Simon ^a   Gašić, Milica ^a   Jurčíček, Filip ^a   Mairesse, François ^a   Thomson, Blaise ^a   Yu, Kai ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DECISION POINTS; EVALUATION RESULTS; USER BEHAVIOUR; USER DATA; USER SIMULATION; PARAMETERS ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; RATIONAL BEHAVIOURS; USER BEHAVIORS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATORS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SIMULATORS;

EID: 84857715566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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