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2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Learning and Evaluation of User-Centered Objective Functions for Dialogue System Optimisation
The ultimate goal when building dialogue systems is to satisfy the needs of real users, but quality assurance for dialogue strategies is a non-trivial problem. The applied evaluat...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
CSL
2012
Springer
12 years 7 days ago
Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems
Reinforcement techniques have been successfully used to maximise the expected cumulative reward of statistical dialogue systems. Typically, reinforcement learning is used to estim...
Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Optimal Dialogue Strategies: A Case Study of a Spoken Dialogue Agent for Email
This paper describes a novel method by which a dialogue agent can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy. While it is widely agreed that dialogue strategies should be formul...
Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne Frommer, Shrikanth Naray...
ML
2006
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Universal parameter optimisation in games based on SPSA
Most game programs have a large number of parameters that are crucial for their performance. While tuning these parameters by hand is rather difficult, efficient and easy to use ge...
Levente Kocsis, Csaba Szepesvári
DAGSTUHL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Function-Based Object Recognition
Functionality-based recognition systems recognize objects at the category level by reasoning about how well the objects support the expected function. Such systems naturally assoc...
Louise Stark, Kevin W. Bowyer