Conversational interfaces: Advances and challenges

VW Zue, JR Glass - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new breed of human-computer
interfaces that combines several human language technologies to enable humans to …

Optimizing dialogue management with reinforcement learning: Experiments with the NJFun system

S Singh, D Litman, M Kearns, M Walker - Journal of Artificial Intelligence …, 2002 - jair.org
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial
choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing …

An application of reinforcement learning to dialogue strategy selection in a spoken dialogue system for email

MA Walker - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2000 - jair.org
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 …

Speech and language processing for next-millennium communications services

RV Cox, CA Kamm, LR Rabiner… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the future, the world of telecommunications will be vastly different than it is today. The
driving force will be the seamless integration of real time communications (eg voice, video …

[PDF][PDF] Learning to predict problematic situations in a spoken dialogue system: experiments with how may i help you?

M Walker, I Langkilde, J Wright, AL Gorin… - 1st Meeting of the …, 2000 - aclanthology.org
Current spoken dialogue systems are deficient in their strategies for preventing, identifying
and repairing problems that arise in the conversation. This paper reports results on learning …

The limsi arise system

L Lamel, S Rosset, JL Gauvain, S Bennacef… - Speech …, 2000 - Elsevier
The LIMSI Arise system provides vocal access by telephone to rail travel information for
main French intercity connections, including timetables, simulated fares and reservations …

[PDF][PDF] Challenges for spoken dialogue systems

J Glass - Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE ASRU Workshop, 1999 - groups.csail.mit.edu
The past decade has seen the development of a large number of spoken dialogue systems
around the world, both as research prototypes and commercial applications. These systems …

[PDF][PDF] DARPA communicator dialog travel planning systems: the june 2000 data collection.

MA Walker, JS Aberdeen, JE Boland, EO Bratt… - …, 2001 - cs.cmu.edu
This paper describes results of an experiment with 9 different DARPA Communicator
Systems who participated in the June 2000 data collection. All systems supported travel …

Automatically training a problematic dialogue predictor for a spoken dialogue system

MA Walker, I Langkilde-Geary, HW Hastie… - Journal of Artificial …, 2002 - jair.org
Spoken dialogue systems promise efficient and natural access to a large variety of
information sources and services from any phone. However, current spoken dialogue …

[PDF][PDF] Automatic optimization of dialogue management

D Litman, MS Kearns, S Singh… - COLING 2000 Volume 1 …, 2000 - aclanthology.org
Designing the dialogue strategy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial
choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing …