Using wizard-of-oz simulations to bootstrap reinforcement-learningbased dialog management systems

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2003 Workshop - 4th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Williams, Jason D ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ACTION SETS; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DIALOGUE MANAGER; STATE-SPACE; WIZARD OF OZ;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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