A tractable DDN-POMDP Approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling for General Probabilistic Frame-based Dialogue Systems

Trung H. Bui; Mannes Poel; Anton Nijholt; Job Zwiers

A tractable DDN-POMDP Approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling for General Probabilistic Frame-based Dialogue Systems

Trung H. Bui
, Mannes Poel
, Anton Nijholt
, Job Zwiers

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We propose a new approach to developing a tractable affective dialogue model for general probabilistic frame-based dialogue systems. The dialogue model, based on the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) and the Dynamic Decision Network (DDN) techniques, is composed of two main parts, the slot level dialogue manager and the global dialogue manager. Our implemented dialogue manager prototype can handle hundreds of slots; each slot might have many values. A first evaluation of the slot level dialogue manager (1-slot case) showed that with a 95% confidence level the DDN-POMDP dialogue strategy outperforms three simple handcrafted dialogue strategies when the user's action error is induced by stress.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems
Editors	David Traum, Jan Alexandersson, Arne Jönsson, Ingrid Zukerman
Place of Publication	Hyderabad, India
Publisher	IJCAI
Pages	34-37
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 8 Jan 2007
Event	5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems 2007 - Hyderabad, India Duration: 8 Jan 2007 → 8 Jan 2007

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Workshop	5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems 2007
Country/Territory	India
City	Hyderabad
Period	8/01/07 → 8/01/07

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HMI-MI: MULTIMODAL INTERACTIONS
HMI-SLT: Speech and Language Technology

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A tractable DDN-POMDP Approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling for General Probabilistic Frame-based Dialogue Systems
Bui, T. H., Poel, M., Nijholt, A. & Zwiers, J., 28 Sept 2006, Enschede: Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT). 8 p. (CTIT Technical Report Series; no. 06-65)
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Bui, Trung H. ; Poel, Mannes ; Nijholt, Anton et al. / A tractable DDN-POMDP Approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling for General Probabilistic Frame-based Dialogue Systems. Proceedings of the 5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. editor / David Traum ; Jan Alexandersson ; Arne Jönsson ; Ingrid Zukerman. Hyderabad, India : IJCAI, 2007. pp. 34-37

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Bui, TH, Poel, M, Nijholt, A & Zwiers, J 2007, A tractable DDN-POMDP Approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling for General Probabilistic Frame-based Dialogue Systems. in D Traum, J Alexandersson, A Jönsson & I Zukerman (eds), Proceedings of the 5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. IJCAI, Hyderabad, India, pp. 34-37, 5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems 2007, Hyderabad, India, 8/01/07.

A tractable DDN-POMDP Approach to Affective Dialogue Modeling for General Probabilistic Frame-based Dialogue Systems. / Bui, Trung H.; Poel, Mannes; Nijholt, Anton et al.
Proceedings of the 5th IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems. ed. / David Traum; Jan Alexandersson; Arne Jönsson; Ingrid Zukerman. Hyderabad, India: IJCAI, 2007. p. 34-37.

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