354 citations · 505 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.AI2011★ 77 cited
Automatically Training a Problematic Dialogue Predictor for a Spoken Dialogue System
A. Gorin, I. Langkilde-Geary, M. A. Walker +2
Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to a large variety of information sources and services from any phone. However, current spoken dialogue systems are def…
cs.LG2011★ 354 cited
Optimizing Dialogue Management with Reinforcement Learning: Experiments with the NJFun System
M. Kearns, D. Litman, S. Singh +1
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a dia…
cs.AI2011★ 74 cited
An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Dialogue Strategy Selection in a Spoken Dialogue System for Email
M. A. Walker
This paper describes a novel method by which a spoken dialogue system can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy from its experience interacting with human users. The method…