Lossless Value Directed Compression of complex user goal states for statistical spoken dialogue systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1029-1032

  Crook, Paul A ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABC; Automatic belief compression; Complex user goals; POMDP; SDS; Spoken dialogue systems; Statistical dialogue management; Value directed compression; VDC

Indexed keywords

ABC; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; POMDP; SDS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; USER GOALS; VDC;

IMAGE COMPRESSION; MANAGERS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84865791247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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