Statistical dialog systems (SDSs) are motivated by the need for a data-driven framework that
reduces the cost of laboriously handcrafting complex dialog managers and that provides …

In a spoken dialog system, dialog state tracking refers to the task of correctly inferring the
state of the conversation--such as the user's goal--given all of the dialog history up to that …

Tree Graphs) through interaction with external resources. Embodiments can intelligently
understand and converse with users using free-form speech without pre-programmed deter …

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Primary Examiner Li B. Zhen Assistant Examiner—Mikayla Chubb (74) Attorney, Agent, or
Firm—Thomas E. Lees, LLC (57) ABSTRACT Embodiments of an adaptive virtual intelligent …

Abstract Virtual Customer Assistants (VCAs) are revolutionizing the way users interact with
machines. VCAs allow a far more natural interaction, and are gaining an increasingly large …

This paper proposes a novel integrated dialog simulation technique for evaluating spoken
dialog systems. A data-driven user simulation technique for simulating user intention and …

This article argues that future generations of computer-based systems will need cognitive
user interfaces to achieve sufficiently robust and intelligent human interaction. These …

Effective dialogue management is critically dependent on the information that is encoded in
the dialogue state. In order to deploy reinforcement learning for policy optimization, dialogue …

We consider apprenticeship learning, ie, having an agent learn a task by observing an
expert demonstrating the task in a partially observable environment when the model of the …