Student presentations/discussions #2

Below are the papers to be discussed this week. Questions for discussion can be submitted on Blackboard.

• Kallirroi Georgila, James Henderson, and Oliver Lemon. Learning user simulations for information state update dialogue systems. Proceedings of Interspeech, 2005. pdf
• Steve Young, Jost Schatzmann, Karl Weilhammer, and Hui Ye. The hidden information state approach to dialog management. Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2007. pdf
• Inigo Casanueva, Pawel Budzianowski, Pei-Hao Su, Stefan Ultes, Lina Rojas-Barahona, Bo-Hsiang Tseng, and Milica Gasic. Feudal reinforcement learning for dialogue management in large domains. Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), 2018. pdf