Dialogue systems have achieved growing success in many areas thanks to the rapid advances of machine learning techniques. In the quest for generating more human-like …
Recent neural models of dialogue generation offer great promise for generating responses for conversational agents, but tend to be shortsighted, predicting utterances one at a time …
In this paper, we survey the methods and concepts developed for the evaluation of dialogue systems. Evaluation, in and of itself, is a crucial part during the development process. Often …
Much of human dialogue occurs in semi-cooperative settings, where agents with different goals attempt to agree on common decisions. Negotiations require complex communication …
Supervised machine learning techniques have already been widely studied and applied to various real-world applications. However, most existing supervised algorithms work well …
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have significant potential for dialogue policy optimisation. However, they suffer from a poor performance in the early stages of learning …
Tracking the user's intention throughout the course of a dialog, called dialog state tracking, is an important component of any dialog system. Most existing spoken dialog systems are …
C Chakrabarti, GF Luger - Expert Systems with Applications, 2015 - Elsevier
Chatter bots are software programs that engage in artificial conversations through a text- based input medium. They are extensively deployed in customer service applications …
RK Moore - Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses …, 2017 - Springer
Recent years have seen significant market penetration for voice-based personal assistants such as Apple's Siri. However, despite this success, user take-up is frustratingly low. This …