Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes with continuous observations for dialogue management

Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 25-34

  Williams, Jason D ^a   Poupart, Pascal ^b   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PLANNING; CONFIDENCE SCORE; CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; DIALOGUE MANAGER; DIALOGUE MODELS; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; STATE MONITORING; TEST BED SYSTEMS;

MANAGERS; TESTBEDS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84863276973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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