Effects of user modeling on POMDP-based dialogue systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1169-1172

  Kim, Dongho ^a   Sim, Hyeong Seop ^a   Kim, Kee Eung ^a   Kim, Jin Hyung ^a   Kim, Hyunjeong ^b   Sung, Joo Won ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b KT   (South Korea)

Author keywords

POMDP; Spoken dialogue systems; User modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIALOGUE STRATEGY; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; MODEL-BASED; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; POMDP; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; USER MODELING; USER MODELS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867191183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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