Empirical Evaluation of a Reinforcement Learning Spoken Dialogue System

Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 645-651

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

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING;

DESIGN CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN EVALUATION; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; HUMAN USERS; LARGE-SCALES; PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 85158142417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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