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Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems

Blaise Thomson
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Steve Young
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This paper describes a statistically motivated framework for performing real-time dialogue state updates and policy learning in a spoken dialogue system. The framework is based on the partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), which provides a well-founded, statistical model of spoken dialogue management. However, exact belief state updates in a POMDP model are computationally intractable so approximate methods must be used. This paper presents a tractable method based on the loopy belief propagation algorithm. Various simplifications are made, which improve the efficiency significantly compared to the original algorithm as well as compared to other POMDP-based dialogue state updating approaches. A second contribution of this paper is a method for learning in spoken dialogue systems which uses a component-based policy with the episodic Natural Actor Critic algorithm.
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hal-00621617 , version 1 (11-09-2011)

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Blaise Thomson, Steve Young. Bayesian update of dialogue state: A POMDP framework for spoken dialogue systems. Computer Speech and Language, 2010, 24 (4), pp.562. ⟨10.1016/j.csl.2009.07.003⟩. ⟨hal-00621617⟩

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