Efficient probabilistic tracking of user goal and dialog history for spoken dialog systems

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 801-804

  Raux, Antoine ^a   Ma, Yi ^b  

^a HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief tracking; Dialog systems; Gibbs sampling

Indexed keywords

DIALOG ACTS; DIALOG SYSTEMS; GIBBS SAMPLING; LOSS OF ACCURACY; N-BEST LIST; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILISTIC ONTOLOGIES; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; USER GOALS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84865707914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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