Learning optimal dialogue strategies: A case study of a spoken dialogue agent for email

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 1345-1351

  Walker, Marilyn A ^a   Fromer, Jeanne C ^b   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ALGORITHM EVALUATION; CASE-STUDIES; DIALOGUE STRATEGY; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; LEARN+; NOVEL METHODS; PROGRAMMING LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE;

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EID: 85149111795     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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