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Partially observable Markov decision processes for spoken dialog systems
Computer Speech and Language
A statistical approach to spoken dialog systems design and evaluation
Speech Communication
Data-driven user simulation for automated evaluation of spoken dialog systems
Computer Speech and Language
User simulations for context-sensitive speech recognition in spoken dialogue systems
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Learning lexical alignment policies for generating referring expressions in spoken dialogue systems
ENLG '09 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Analysis of a new simulation approach to dialog system evaluation
Speech Communication
The hidden information state dialogue manager: a real-world POMDP-based system
NAACL-Demonstrations '07 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations
Automatic agenda graph construction from human-human dialogs using clustering method
NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers
The Hidden Information State model: A practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management
Computer Speech and Language
User simulation as testing for spoken dialog systems
SIGdial '08 Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
An evaluation understudy for dialogue coherence models
SIGdial '08 Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue
Setting up user action probabilities in user simulations for dialog system development
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
SIGDIAL '09 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
k-nearest neighbor Monte-Carlo control algorithm for POMDP-based dialogue systems
SIGDIAL '09 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Hybrid approach to robust dialog management using agenda and dialog examples
Computer Speech and Language
Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems
Computer Speech and Language
Learning to adapt to unknown users: referring expression generation in spoken dialogue systems
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Phrase-based statistical language generation using graphical models and active learning
ACL '10 Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Towards relational POMDPs for adaptive dialogue management
ACLstudent '10 Proceedings of the ACL 2010 Student Research Workshop
Learning adaptive referring expression generation policies for spoken dialogue systems
Empirical methods in natural language generation
Parameter estimation for agenda-based user simulation
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Adaptive referring expression generation in spoken dialogue systems: evaluation with real users
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Modeling spoken decision making dialogue and optimization of its dialogue strategy
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Comparing user simulations for dialogue strategy learning
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
Modeling spoken decision support dialogue and optimization of its dialogue strategy
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
Modeling internet as a user-adapted speech service
HAIS'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems - Volume Part I
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - A software engineering perspective on smart applications for AmI
Statistical user simulation for spoken dialogue systems: what for, which data, which future?
SDCTD '12 NAACL-HLT Workshop on Future Directions and Needs in the Spoken Dialog Community: Tools and Data
Generative goal-driven user simulation for dialog management
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
An unsupervised approach to user simulation: toward self-improving dialog systems
SIGDIAL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Probabilistic dialogue models with prior domain knowledge
SIGDIAL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Inverse reinforcement learning for interactive systems
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Bridging the Gap Between Perception, Action and Communication
Bringing context-aware access to the web through spoken interaction
Applied Intelligence
Providing personalized Internet services by means of context-aware spoken dialogue systems
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - Context Awareness
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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 simulating user behaviour. In experiments with a statistical POMDP dialogue system, the simulator was realistic enough to successfully test the prototype system and train a dialogue policy. An extensive study with human subjects showed that the learned policy was highly competitive, with task completion rates above 90%.