ICASSP
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
2011
IEEE
Spoken dialogue systems are gaining popularity with improvements in speech recognition technologies. Dialogue systems can be modeled effectively using POMDPs, achieving improvemen...
INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 12 months ago
2010
In our barge-in-able spoken dialogue system, the user's behaviors such as barge-in timing and utterance expressions vary according to his/her characteristics and situations. ...
CORR
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
1999
Springer
Abstract. Recent technological advances have made it possible to build real-time, interactive spoken dialogue systems for a wide variety of applications. However, when users do not...
JAIR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a di...
JAIR
2000
13 years 4 months ago
2000
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...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Evaluation of spoken dialogue systems has been traditionally carried out in terms of instrumentally or expert-derived measures (usually called ``objective" evaluation) and qu...
COLING
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
Designing the dialogue strategy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing di...
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
Spoken dialogue system performance can vary widely for different users, as well for the same user during different dialogues. This paper presents the design and evaluation of an a...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We use machine learners trained on a combination of acoustic confidence and pragmatic plausibility features computed from dialogue context to predict the accuracy of incoming n-be...
LREC
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2010
With a view to rationalise the evaluation process within the Orange Labs spoken dialogue system projects, a field audit has been realised among the various related professionals. ...