Holistic conversational assistants

CL Ortiz - AI Magazine, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
This column describes work being done at Nuance Communication in developing virtual
personal assistants (VPAs) that can engage in extended task center dialogues and the …

Reducing epsilon-DC checking for conditional simple temporal networks to DC checking

L Hunsberger, R Posenato - 25th International Symposium on …, 2018 - drops.dagstuhl.de
Abstract Recent work on Conditional Simple Temporal Networks (CSTNs) has introduced
the problem of checking the dynamic consistency (DC) property for the case where the …

[PDF][PDF] Layered semantic graphs for dialogue management

J Shen, H Harkema, R Crouch, C O'Reilly… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2018 - semdial.org
This paper proposes a layered semantic graph representation for dialogue information. The
representation factors information into several interdependent layers, facilitating efficient …

[PDF][PDF] Counterfactual MDPs: Planning Beyond Direct Control

R Silva - 2021 - reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu
Planning under uncertainty using Markov decision processes (MDPs) requires a model of
the environment specifying the probabilistic effects of the actions that the agent is able to …