Learning dialogue management models for task-oriented dialogue with parallel dialogue and task streams

SIGDIAL 2013 - 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 204-213

  Ha, Eun Young ^a   Mitchell, Christopher M ^a   Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth ^a   Lester, James C ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING DIALOGUES; MODEL APPROACH; TASK-ORIENTED; USER INTERACTION;

EID: 84987904660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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