A domain-independent statistical methodology for dialog management in spoken dialog systems ?
Dialog systems (DS) allow intuitive interaction through natural language. Dialog managers are usually implemented ad hoc and difficult to adapt to new domains. A statistical methodology is proposed to reduce the effort required to develop and adapt dialog managers. User simulation is also proposed to facilitate the acquisition of the required dialog corpus. A complete implementation of our proposal for different dialog systems and its evaluation are also detailed.
statistical methodologies dialog management spoken dialog systems user modeling dialog simulation systems evaluation