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CSL
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Evaluation of a hierarchical reinforcement learning spoken dialogue system
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Steve Renals, Oliver ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Sparse Approximate Dynamic Programming for Dialog Management
Spoken dialogue management strategy optimization by means of Reinforcement Learning (RL) is now part of the state of the art. Yet, there is still a clear mismatch between the comp...
Senthilkumar Chandramohan, Matthieu Geist, Olivier...
JAIR
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email
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...
Marilyn A. Walker
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
KDD
2010
ACM
282views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing debt collections using constrained reinforcement learning
In this paper, we propose and develop a novel approach to the problem of optimally managing the tax, and more generally debt, collections processes at financial institutions. Our...
Naoki Abe, Prem Melville, Cezar Pendus, Chandan K....