Designing the dialogue strategy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing di...
Diane J. Litman, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder P. Si...
This paper presents PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation), a general framework for evaluating spoken dialogue agents. The framework decouples task requirements from a...
Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kam...
We propose an efficient dialogue management for an information navigation system based on a document knowledge base with a spoken dialogue interface. In order to perform robustly ...
We provide a detailed look on the functioning of the OwlSpeak Spoken Dialogue Manager, which is part of the EU-funded project ATRACO. OwlSpeak interprets Spoken Dialogue Ontologie...
Tobias Heinroth, Dan Denich, Alexander Schmitt, Wo...
We address appropriate user modeling in order to generate cooperative responses to each user in spoken dialogue systems. Unlike previous studies that focus on user’s knowledge o...