Dialogue policy learning for combinations of noise and user simulation: Transfer results

Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 55-58

  Lemon, Oliver ^a   Liu, Xingkun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE STRATEGY; KNOW-HOW; LOW NOISE; NOISE MODELS; USER SIMULATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84863280892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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