In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
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, ...
The goal of the Virtual Humans Project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is to enrich virtual training environments with virtual hum...
Patrick G. Kenny, Arno Hartholt, Jonathan Gratch, ...
Mobile usage patterns often entail high and fluctuating levels of difficulty as well as dual tasking. One major theme explored in this research is whether a flexible multimodal in...
Sharon L. Oviatt, Rachel Coulston, Rebecca Lunsfor...
Abstract. Research in dialogue systems has been moving towards reusable and adaptable architectures for managing dialogue execution and integrating heterogeneous subsystems. In thi...