1. A methodology for turn-taking capabilities enhancement in Spoken Dialogue Systems using Reinforcement Learning.
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Khouzaimi, Hatim, Laroche, Romain, and Lefèvre, Fabrice
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REINFORCEMENT learning , *DIALOGUE analysis , *AUTOMATIC speech recognition , *SUPERVISED learning , *MACHINE learning - Abstract
This article introduces a new methodology to enhance an existing traditional Spoken Dialogue System (SDS) with optimal turn-taking capabilities in order to increase dialogue efficiency. A new approach for transforming the traditional dialogue architecture into an incremental one at a low cost is presented: a new turn-taking decision module called the Scheduler is inserted between the Client and the Service. It is responsible for handling turn-taking decisions. Then, a User Simulator which is able to interact with the system using this new architecture has been implemented and used to train a new Reinforcement Learning turn-taking strategy. Compared to a non-incremental and a handcrafted incremental baselines, it is shown to perform better in simulation and in a real live experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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