The best of both worlds: Unifying conventional dialog systems and POMDPs

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1173-1176

  Williams, Jason D ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogue management; Dialogue modelling; Partially observable Markov decision process; Planning under uncertainty; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; DIALOGUE MODELLING; PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; PLANNING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

DECISION MAKING; ERROR DETECTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MANAGERS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867212767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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