Statistical Dialog Systems
- L1: Introduction to Spoken Dialogue Systems
- L2: Semantic Decoding; Additional material
- L3: and L4: Belief Tracking
- L5: and L6: Dialogue Policy Optimisation (together with Pei-Hao Su)
- L7: Natural Language Generation (together with Tsung-Hsien Wen)
- L8: Current Research Topics
Further Reading:
- Poesio and Traum, Towards an Axiomatization of Dialogue Acts, TWLT, 1998 PDF
- Walker et al, PARADISE: A Framework for Evaluating Spoken Dialogue Agents, ACL, 1997 PDF
- Levin at al, A Stochastic Model of Human-Machine Interaction for Learning Dialog Strategies, IEEE TSAP, 1998 PDF
- Meng et al, To believe is to understand, 1999
- Roy et al, Spoken Dialog Management Using Probabilistic Reasoning, ACL, 2000 PDF
- Raux et al, Let's Go Public! Taking a Spoken Dialog System to the Real World, INTERSPEECH, 2005 PDF
- Stent et al, Evaluating Evaluation Methods for Generation in the Presence of Variation, CICLing, 2005 PDF
- Williams and Young, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Spoken Dialog Systems, in Computer Speech and Language, 2007 PDF
- Bohus and Horvitz, Learning to Predict Engagement with a Spoken Dialog System in Open-World Settings, SIGDIAL, 2009 PDF
- Skantze and Schlangen, Incremental Dialogue Processing in a Micro-Domain, EACL, 2009 PDF