Because of the great variability of factors to take into account, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task. Rapid design and reusability of previous work is ma...
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...
Spoken dialogue systemperformance canvary widely fordifferentusers, aswell for the same userduring different dialogues.This paper presents the design and evaluation ofan adaptive v...
Spoken dialogue managers have benefited from using stochastic planners such as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). However, so far, MDPs do not handle well noisy and ambiguous speec...
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method...