Virtual agents designed to establish relationships with more than one user must be able to identify and distinguish among those users with high reliability. We descr...
Daniel Schulman, Mayur Sharma, Timothy W. Bickmore
Older adults are a challenging user group because their behaviour can be highly variable. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study where dialogue strategies are learn...
Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Johanna D. Moor...
Abstract. Spoken dialogue interfaces apply in a number of applications. Engaging in meaningful conversation presupposes the ability to recognize and generate different conversatio...
This paper explains how Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) can provide a principled mathematical framework for modelling the inherent uncertainty in spoken di...
Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Fran&cced...
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...