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Finite-to-Infinite N-Best POMDP for Spoken Dialogue Management

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Abstract

Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) has been widely used as dialogue management in slot-filling Spoken Dialogue System (SDS). But there are still lots of open problems. The contribution of this paper lies in two aspects. Firstly, the observation probability of POMDP is estimated from the N-Best list of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) rather than the top one. This modification gives SDS a chance to address the uncertainty of ASR. Secondly, a dynamic binding technique is proposed for slots with infinite values so as to deal with uncertainty of talking object. The proposed methods have been implemented on a teach-and-learn spoken dialogue system. Experimental results show that performance of system improves significantly by introducing the proposed methods.

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Metadaten
Titel
Finite-to-Infinite N-Best POMDP for Spoken Dialogue Management
verfasst von
Guohua Wu
Caixia Yuan
Bing Leng
Xiaojie Wang
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25816-4_30