Although dialogue systems have been an area of research for decades, finding accurate ways of evaluating different systems is still a very active subfield since many leading metho...
Within the EU-funded COMPANIONS project, we are working to evaluate new collaborative conversational models of dialogue. Such an evaluation requires us to benchmark approaches to ...
Nick Webb, David Benyon, Jay Bradley, Preben Hanse...
In this paper, we learn the components of dialogue POMDP models from data. In particular, we learn the states, observations, as well as transition and observation functions based o...
Designing the dialogue strategy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing di...
Diane J. Litman, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder P. Si...
We describe an evaluation of spoken dialogue strategies designed using hierarchical reinforcement learning agents. The dialogue strategies were learnt in a simulated environment a...