Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Papers from the 2006 AAAI Workshop
Pascal Poupart, Stephanie Seneff, Jason Williams, and Steve Young, Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-06-14 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Organizing Committee / vii
Pascal Poupart, Stephanie Seneff, Jason Williams, and Steve Young
Comparing Real-Real, Simulated-Simulated, and Simulated-Real Spoken Dialogue Corpora / 1
Hua Ai and Diane Litman
Efficient Planning and Tracking in POMDPs with Large Observation Spaces / 7
Amin Atrash and Joelle Pineau
A “K Hypotheses + Other“ Belief Updating Model / 13
Dan Bohus and Alex Rudnicky
Learning Decision Models in Spoken Dialogue Systems via User Simulation / 19
Ed Filisko and Stephanie Seneff
Managing Unseen Situations in a Stochastic Dialog Model / 25
David Griol, Lluis F. Hurtado, Encarna Segarra, and Emilio Sanchis
Dialogue Strategy Optimization with Reinforcement Learning in an AT&T Call Routing Application / 31
Charles Lewis and Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio
Scaling POMDPs for Dialog Management with Composite Summary Point-Based Value Iteration (CSPBVI) / 37
Jason D. Williams and Steve Young
Modeling the Dative Alternation with Automatically Extracted Features / 43
Huayan Zhong, Amanda Stent, and Mary Swift