Toward learning and evaluation of dialogue policies with text examples

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 39-48

  DeVault, David ^a   Leuski, Anton ^a   Sagae, Kenji ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL POLICIES; POLICY EVALUATION; ROLE PLAY; TRAINING DATA;

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