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CSL
2012
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Reinforcement learning for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems
Reinforcement techniques have been successfully used to maximise the expected cumulative reward of statistical dialogue systems. Typically, reinforcement learning is used to estim...
Filip Jurcícek, Blaise Thomson, Steve Young
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Bayesian update of dialogue state for robust dialogue systems
This paper presents a new framework for accumulating beliefs in spoken dialogue systems. The technique is based on updating a Bayesian Network that represents the underlying state...
Blaise Thomson, Jost Schatzmann, Steve Young
INTERSPEECH
2010
14 years 6 months ago
Still talking to machines (cognitively speaking)
This overview article reviews the structure of a fully statistical spoken dialogue system (SDS), using as illustration, various systems and components built at Cambridge over the ...
Steve Young
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
An instantaneous vector representation of delta pitch for speaker-change prediction in conversational dialogue systems
As spoken dialogue systems become deployed in increasingly complex domains, they face rising demands on the naturalness of interaction. We focus on system responsiveness, aiming t...
Kornel Laskowski, Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner
ACL
1998
15 years 1 months ago
Context Management with Topics for Spoken Dialogue Systems
In this paper we discuss the use of discourse context in spoken dialogue systems and argue that the knowledge of the domain, modelled with the help of dialogue topics is important...
Kristiina Jokinen, Hideki Tanaka