Setting Up User Action Probabilities in User Simulations for Dialog System Development

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 888-896

  Ai, Hua ^a   Litman, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

'CURRENT; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; HUMAN USERS; PROBABILITY MODELLING; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; USER ACTION; USER BEHAVIORS; USER DATA; USER SIMULATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84867479036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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