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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, ...
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
The Role of Initiative in Tutorial Dialogue
This work is the first systematic investigation of initiative in human-human tutorial dialogue. We studied initiative management in two dialogue strategies: didactic tutoring and...
Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore, Claus Zinn
UMUAI
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
An Evidential Model for Tracking Initiative in Collaborative Dialogue Interactions
In this paper, we argue for the need to distinguish between task initiative and dialogue initiative, and present an evidential model for tracking shifts in both types of initiativ...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Michael K. Brown
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Dialogue Act Modeling in a Complex Task-Oriented Domain
Classifying the dialogue act of a user utterance is a key functionality of a dialogue management system. This paper presents a data-driven dialogue act classifier that is learned ...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eun Y. Ha, Robert Phillips...
LREC
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
WITcHCRafT: A Workbench for Intelligent exploraTion of Human ComputeR conversaTions
We present Witchcraft, an open-source framework for the evaluation of prediction models for spoken dialogue systems based on interaction logs and audio recordings. The use of Witc...
Alexander Schmitt, Gregor Bertrand, Tobias Heinrot...