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NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System
This paper investigates the problem of bootstrapping a statistical dialogue manager without access to training data and proposes a new probabilistic agenda-based method for simula...
Jost Schatzmann, Blaise Thomson, Karl Weilhammer, ...
CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems
This paper describes a statistically motivated framework for performing real-time dialogue state updates and policy learning in a spoken dialogue system. The framework is based on...
Blaise Thomson, Steve Young
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation
We address two problems in the field of automatic optimization of dialogue strategies: learning effective dialogue strategies when no initial data or system exists, and evaluating...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
The Hidden Information State model: A practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management
This paper explains how Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) can provide a principled mathematical framework for modelling the inherent uncertainty in spoken di...
Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Fran&cced...