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Recent research advances in Reinforcement Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2009

Matthew Frampton  and
Oliver Lemon
Matthew Frampton*
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4101, USA; e-mail: frampton@stanford.edu
Oliver Lemon*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK; e-mail: o.lemon@hw.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper will summarize and analyze the work of the different research groups who have recently made significant contributions in using Reinforcement Learning techniques to learn dialogue strategies for Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDSs). This use of stochastic planning and learning has become an important research area in the past 10 years, since it promises automatic data-driven optimization of the behavior of SDSs that were previously hand-coded by expert developers. We survey the most important developments in the field, compare and contrast the different approaches, and describe current open problems.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 375 - 408
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