Reinforcement learning for spoken dialogue systems

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 956-962

  Singh, Satinder ^a   Kearns, Michael ^a   Litman, Diane ^a   Walker, Marilyn ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84898955256     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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