TY - GEN digital ID - 131562685 TI - Building Dialogue POMDPs from Expert Dialogues : An end-to-end approach AU - Chinaei, Hamidreza AU - Chaib-draa, Brahim PY - 2016 SN - 9783319262000 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Electrical engineering KW - Applied physical engineering KW - Mass communications KW - Programming KW - Computer architecture. Operating systems KW - Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics KW - Computer. Automation KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - beeldverwerking KW - spraaktechnologie KW - informatica KW - KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) KW - ingenieurswetenschappen KW - elektrotechniek KW - robots KW - communicatietechnologie KW - signaalverwerking KW - interfaces UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131562685 AB - This book discusses the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework applied in dialogue systems. It presents POMDP as a formal framework to represent uncertainty explicitly while supporting automated policy solving. The authors propose and implement an end-to-end learning approach for dialogue POMDP model components. Starting from scratch, they present the state, the transition model, the observation model and then finally the reward model from unannotated and noisy dialogues. These altogether form a significant set of contributions that can potentially inspire substantial further work. This concise manuscript is written in a simple language, full of illustrative examples, figures, and tables. Provides insights on building dialogue systems to be applied in real domain Illustrates learning dialogue POMDP model components from unannotated dialogues in a concise format Introduces an end-to-end approach that makes use of unannotated and noisy dialogue for learning each component of dialogue POMDPs. ER -