Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken Dialogue Systems: Computational Learning for Conversational Interfaces

183 Pages·2012·2.643 MB·English

by  Oliver Lemon (auth.), Oliver Lemon, Olivier Pietquin (eds.)

Data-Driven Methods for Adaptive Spoken
Dialogue Systems

Oliver Lemon • Olivier Pietquin
Editors
Data-Driven Methods
for Adaptive Spoken
Dialogue Systems
Computational Learning
for Conversational Interfaces
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Editors
OliverLemon OlivierPietquin
MathematicsandComputerScience SUPELEC-UMI2958(GeorgiaTech-
HeriotWattUniversity CNRS)
Edinburgh,UK MetzCampus-IMS-MaLISResearch
Group
rueEdouardBelin2
Metz,France
ISBN978-1-4614-4802-0 ISBN978-1-4614-4803-7(eBook)
DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-4803-7
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Acknowledgements
In addition to the contributors to this book, we would like to thank all of the
researcherswhoworkedtogetherontheCLASSiCproject:
CedricBoidin
PhillipeBretier
PaulCrook
HerveFrezza-Buet
MatthieuGeist
HelenHastie
MichelIanotto
IoannisKonstas
NicolasMerigaud
LonnekevanderPlas
PaolaMerlo
JohannaMoore
RomainLaroche
XingkunLiu
GhislainPutois
KaiYu
We would also like to thank our Project Officers and Reviewers from the EC,
whogaveusexcellentcriticalguidance:
LouistenBosch
PhillipeGelin(ProjectOfficer)
XavierGros(ProjectOfficer)
MikeMcTear
AndyWay
The research leading to these results received funding from the European
Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) under grant agreement no.
216594(CLASSiCproject).
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Contents
1 ConversationalInterfaces................................................... 1
OliverLemon
2 DevelopingDialogueManagersfromLimitedAmountsofData....... 5
VerenaRieserandOliverLemon
3 Data-DrivenMethodsforSpokenLanguageUnderstanding ........... 19
JamesHendersonandFilipJurcˇ´ıcˇek
4 UserSimulationintheDevelopmentofStatisticalSpoken
DialogueSystems............................................................. 39
SimonKeizer,Ste´phaneRossignol,SenthilkumarChandramohan,
andOlivierPietquin
5 OptimisationforPOMDP-BasedSpokenDialogueSystems............ 75
MilicaGasˇic´,FilipJurcˇ´ıcˇek,BlaiseThomson,andSteveYoung
6 StatisticalApproachestoAdaptiveNaturalLanguageGeneration.... 103
OliverLemon,SriniJanarthanam,andVerenaRieser
7 MetricsandEvaluationofSpokenDialogueSystems.................... 131
HelenHastie
8 Data-DrivenMethodsinIndustrialSpokenDialogSystems............ 151
RobertoPieracciniandDavidSuendermann
9 ConclusionandFutureResearchDirections.............................. 173
OlivierPietquin
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Contributors
SenthilkumarChandramohan SUPELEC,Metz,France
MilicaGasˇic´ CambridgeUniversity,Cambridge,UK
HelenHastie Heriot-WattUniversity,Edinburgh,UK
JamesHenderson Universite´deGene`ve,Geneva,Switzerland
SriniJanarthanam Heriot-WattUniversity,Edinburgh,UK
FilipJurcˇ´ıcˇek CharlesUniversity,Prague,CzechRepublic
SimonKeizer Heriot-WattUniversity,Edinburgh,UK
Oliver Lemon Mathematics and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh,UK
RobertoPieraccini SpeechCycle,NewYork,NY,USA
ICSI,Berkeley,CA,USA
OlivierPietquin SUPELEC,Supe´lecCampusdeMetz,France
VerenaRieser Heriot-WattUniversity,Edinburgh,UK
Ste´phaneRossignol SUPELEC,Metz,France
DavidSuendermann SpeechCycle,NewYork,NY,USA
DHBW,Stuttgart,Germany
BlaiseThomson CambridgeUniversity,Cambridge,UK
SteveYoung CambridgeUniversity,Cambridge,UK
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