Statistical Methods for Spoken Dialogue Management

• Main Author: Thomson, Blaise (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mathematical statistics.; Statistics.; Neuropsychology.; Biological psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.; Biological Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.

Speech is the most natural mode of communication and yet attempts to build systems which support robust habitable conversations between a human and a machine have so far had only limited success. A key reason is that current systems treat speech input as equivalent to a keyboard or mouse, and behavi...

Table of Contents:

• Dialogue system theory
• Maintaining state
• Maintaining state - optimizations
• Policy design
• Evaluation
• Parameter learning.