K-nearest neighbor Monte-Carlo control algorithm for POMDP-based dialogue systems

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 272-275

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTION COMPENSATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONTROL TECHNIQUES; DECISION PROCESS; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; GRID-BASED APPROACH; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; STATE REPRESENTATION; SUBOPTIMAL ESTIMATIONS; WEIGHTED K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84857718009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1708376.1708414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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