Active Learning & Dialog Systems




Phrase-based statistical language generation using graphical models and active learning
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F Mairesse, M Gašic, F Jurcícek, S Keizer... - Proceedings of the 48th ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... each active learning iteration requires gen- erating all training utterances in our domain, they
are generated using a larger clique pruning thresh- old than the test utterances used for evaluation.
5.1 Corpus collection We train BAGEL in the context of a dialogue system providing ...
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Situated Spoken Dialogue with Robots Using Active Learning
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K Sugiura, N Iwahashi, H Kawai... - Advanced ..., 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
... Keywords Active learning, confidence, robot language acquisition, object manipulation dialogue ...
In the field of spoken dialogue systems (SDS), the whether-to-confirm problem has received
considerable attention in the context of error handling [3, 4]. The problem of how to ...
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An Active Learning Approach for Statistical Spoken Language Understanding
F García, LF Hurtado, E Sanchis... - Progress in Pattern ..., 2011 - Springer
... Spoken Dialog System. Some experiments that show the appropriateness of our
approach are also presented. Keywords: active learning, unaligned corpus, spoken
language under- standing, spoken dialog systems. 1 Introduction ...
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Active learning and semi-supervised learning for speech recognition: A unified framework using the global entropy reduction maximization criterion
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D Yu, B Varadarajan, L Deng... - Computer Speech & Language, 2010 - Elsevier
... We would like to point out that using a global criterion for active learning has also
been explored by Kuo and Goel (2005) for the dialog system upon the error rate
reduction approaches. Different from their approach, our approach ...
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[PDF] Reciprocal Learning via Dialogue Interaction: Challenges and Prospects
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R Fernández, S Larsson, R Cooper, J Ginzburg... - 2011 - cs.utexas.edu
... From the dialogue systems research commu- nity, we are making first steps in this direction ...
Learning techniques such as one-shot learning, bootstrap learning, and active learning [Fei-Fei
et al., 2006; Modayil and Kuipers, 2007; Chao et al., 2010] might be able to open the door ...
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D3 toolkit: a development toolkit for daydreaming spoken dialog systems
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D Lee, K Kim, C Lee, J Choi... - Spoken Dialogue Systems for ..., 2010 - Springer
... toolkit starts from loading a set of log files which have been generated when the real users talked
to the dialog system in the ... The developer is only required to verify and modify auto-generated
candidates like active learning [7]. New utterance patterns are added to the existing ...
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Predicting Learning Styles in a Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System
A Latham, K Crockett, D McLean... - Advances in Web-Based ..., 2010 - Springer
... When compared to the ILS questionnaire results, Oscar accurately predicted an Active learning
style in 100% of cases, however it was not possible to predict a Reflective ... 363-367 (2007) [19]
Litman, DJ, Silliman, S.: ITSPOKE: An intelligent tutoring spoken dialogue system. ...
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[PDF] Real user evaluation of spoken dialogue systems using Amazon Mechanical Turk
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F Jurcicek, S Keizer, M Gašic... - Proceedings of ..., 2011 - people.csail.mit.edu
... ASRU, 2009. [3] M. Geist and O. Pietquin, "Managing Uncertainty within the KTD Framework,"
in Proceedings of the Workshop on Active Learning and Experimental Design, Sardinia, Italy,
2011. [4] J. Schatzmann, "Statistical user modeling for dialogue systems," Ph.D ...
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[PDF] Active Learning for Building a Corpus of Questions for Parsing
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J Atserias, G Attardi, M Simi... - Corpus, 2010 - lrec-conf.org
... for improving the accuracy of parsers but also in other high level natural language tasks which
involve analyzing questions (eg question answering, Frequently Asked Questions retrieval, dialog
systems, etc). We have also shown that different active learning strategies, albeit ...
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Active Learning
D Hakkani-Tür... - Spoken Language Understanding, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. 8 Active Learning Dilek ... components. In this chapter, we review machine learning
algorithms for example selections, so-called active learning methods, and describe relevant
spoken language processing applications. 8.1 Introduction ...
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Active Learning for Generating Motion and Utterances in Object Manipulation Dialogue Tasks
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K Sugiura, N Iwahashi, H Kawai... - Proceedings of the 2010 ..., 2010 - aaai.org
... One of the contributions of this study is the in- troduction of active learning into a multimodal
spoken dialogue system. Some demo video clips can be found at http://mastarpj.nict.go.jp/˜
ksugiura/ video_gallery/video_gallery_en.html. References Bohus, D., and Rudnicky, A. 2005. ...
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[PDF] Managing uncertainty within the ktd framework
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M Geist... - ... of the Workshop on Active Learning and ..., 2010 - jmlr.csail.mit.edu
... section, we present several approaches designed to handle the dilemma between exploration
and exploitation (which can be linked to active learning). ... A spoken dialog system (SDS) generally
aims at providing information to a user through natural language-based interactions. ...
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[PDF] A Bayesian Method for Learning POMDP Observation Parameters for Robot Interaction Management Systems
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A Atrash... - The POMDP Practitioners Workshop, 2010 - users.isr.ist.utl.pt
... An example of this occurs because the dialogue system essentially resets itself after
each completed action. ... Active learning (Cohn, Ghahramani, and Jordan 1995) has also
been explored as a method for learning probabilis- tic models. ...
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Active learning for dialogue act labelling
F Ghigi, V Tamarit, CD Martínez-Hinarejos... - Pattern Recognition and ..., 2011 - Springer
... A dialogue system is usually defined as a computer system that interacts with a human by using
dialogue to achieve a defined objec- tive ... The goal of this work is to explore various sample
selection criteria and em- ploy them in an active learning strategy framework for dialogue ...
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Active learning of confidence measure function in robot language acquisition framework
K Sugiura, N Iwahashi, H Kashioka... - Intelligent Robots and ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... In this paper, we proposed a method that decreases the risk of motion failure in the learning
phase. One of the contributions of this study is the introduction of active learning into a
multimodal spoken dialogue system. Some demo video clips can be found ...
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Real User Evaluation of Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Amazon Mechanical Turk
F Jurcícek, S Keizer, M Gašic... - ... Annual Conference of ..., 2011 - isca-speech.org
... ASRU, 2009. [3] M. Geist and O. Pietquin, "Managing Uncertainty within the KTD Framework,"
in Proceedings of the Workshop on Active Learning and Experimental Design, Sardinia, Italy,
2011. [4] J. Schatzmann, "Statistical user modeling for dialogue systems," Ph.D ...
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Gaussian processes for fast policy optimisation of pomdp-based dialogue managers
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M Gašic, F Jurcícek, S Keizer, F Mairesse... - Proceedings of the 11th ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... 2.2 Voice Mail Dialogue Task In order to demonstrate how this methodology can be applied to
a dialogue system, we first ex- plain the idea on the voice mail dialogue ... 3.3 Active Learning
GP-Sarsa The GP RL framework enables modelling the uncertainty of the approximation. ...
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[PDF] Uncertainty management for on-line optimisation of a POMDP-based large-scale spoken dialogue system
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L Daubigney, M Gašic, S Chandramohan, M Geist... - 2011 - metz.supelec.fr
... This is an instantiation of active learning where the utility function uses uncertainty
in- formation [13]. ... The use of GP-SARSA for fast learning in spoken dialogue systems
was first described in [11] and the same system is used here. ...
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[PDF] Learning from student responses: A domain-independent natural language tutor
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J McDonald, A Knott, R Zeng... - Workshop, pages, 2011 - aclweb.org
... E 1 indicates low con- fidence and less difference between the class rank- ings. Finally the
classifier is serialised, along with its associated feaureset parameters and saved for use in the
dialogue system itself. 5 Testing classifiers ... 2003. Inter- active learning systems evaluation. ...
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[BOOK] Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems: A Data-driven Methodology for Dialogue Management and Natural Language Generation
V Rieser... - 2011 - books.google.com
Page 1. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing Monographs Verena Rieser
Oliver Lemon Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems A Data-driven Methodology
for Dialogue Management and Natural Language Generation Page 2. ...
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Sample efficient on-line learning of optimal dialogue policies with kalman temporal differences
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O Pietquin, M Geist... - International Joint Conference ..., 2011 - aaai.org
... In Journal of Machine Learning Re- search, Workshop & Conference Proceedings (JMLR W&
CP): Active Learning and Experimental Design, Sardinia, Italy, 2010. ... Natural Belief-Critic: a
reinforcement algorithm for pa- rameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems. ...
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A classifier-based approach to supporting the augmentation of the question-answer database for spoken dialogue systems
H Narimatsu, M Nakano... - Spoken Dialogue Systems for ..., 2010 - Springer
... This paper concerns a kind of spoken dialogue system that answers user ques- tions by retrieving
answers from a database consisting of a set ... This can be regraded as a kind of active learning
[6,2]. To better estimate the scores, the classifier uses various features obtained from ...
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The EducAgent Platform: Intelligent Conversational Agents for E-Learning Applications
D Griol, J García-Herrero... - Ambient Intelligence-Software and ..., 2011 - Springer
... a flexible learning tool to offer the stimulus, support and environment nec- essary to guide students
in a continuous and active learning process. ... 10(3), 814 (2006) 4. Griol, D., Hurtado, L., Segarra,
E., Sanchis, E.: A Statistical Approach to Spoken Dialog Systems Design and ...
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Spoken language understanding using weakly supervised learning
WL Wu, RZ Lu, JY Duan, H Liu, F Gao... - Computer Speech & ..., 2010 - Elsevier
... Keywords: Spoken language understanding; Spoken dialogue system; Topic classification;
Active learning; Self-training; Bootstrapping. Article Outline. 1. Introduction; 2. Related works;
2.1. The rule-based approaches; 2.2. The data-driven approaches; 2.3. ...
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[PDF] D1. 5: Online adaptation of dialogue systems
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F Jurcicek, M Gašic, S Young, R Laroche, G Putois... - 2011 - classic-project.org
... In Pro- ceedings of the Workshop on Active Learning and Experimental Design (AL&E collocated
with AISTAT 2010), Journal of Machine Learning Research ... Natural Belief-Critic: a reinforcement
algorithm for parameter estimation in statistical spoken dialogue systems. ...
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Tutor-based learning of visual categories using different levels of supervision
M Fritz, GJM Kruijff... - Computer Vision and Image ..., 2010 - Elsevier
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Robot self-initiative and personalization by learning through repeated interactions
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M Mason... - Proceedings of the 6th international conference ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
... 2. DIALOG SYSTEM A dialog system is used to receive the users' commands and clarification
responses and to provide cooperative super- vision of the task execution. ... 5.2 Dialog System
The Dialog system is implemented using the Nuance SDK [17]. ...
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Rapid and inexpensive development of speech action classifiers for natural language call routing systems
EE Jan... - Spoken Language Technology ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... [4] Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Gokhan Tur, Mazin Rahim and Giuseppe Riccardi, "Unsupervised and
active learning in automatic ... P. Hunter, K. Dayanidhi and R. Pieraccini, "From rule-based to
statistical grammars: Continuous improvement of large- scale spoken dialog systems" in Proc ...
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Key Issues for Personalized Learning Service Provision in Ubiquitous Learning Environments
LY Li, YL Zheng... - Advanced Materials Research, 2011 - Trans Tech Publ
... Wahlster and Kobsa defined a user model as "a knowledge source in a natural-language dialog
system which contains explicit ... Active learning can not detached from learners' personal
perceptions, understanding, reflection of current learning situations, and often depends on ...
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Making sense of mediated learning: Cases from small firms
A Macpherson, A Kofinas, O Jones... - Management ..., 2010 - mlq.sagepub.com
... For example, those firms that have a more active 'learning orientation' show increased
performance using both financial and non ... The processes identified above-identity formation,
discourse and dialogue, systems and routines, reflection, time and space, and politics and friction ...
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Better to be frustrated than bored: The incidence, persistence, and impact of learners' cognitive-affective states during interactions with three different computer-based ...
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RSJ Baker, SK D'Mello, MMT Rodrigo... - International Journal of ..., 2010 - Elsevier
... ITSs have emerged as valuable systems to promote active learning, with learning gains associated
with sophisticated ITSs at around a 1.0 SD improvement (about a letter grade) when compared
to controls (Dodds and Fletcher, 2004; Koedinger and Corbett, 2006; VanLehn et ...
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Pedagogical Design and Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval Learning Environment
K Halttunen - Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval, 2011 - Springer
... Instruction emphasizes active learning: doing and practicing. ... Log files were downloaded from
the QPA and converted into spreadsheets. Second, the Dialog system was used in the last
search exercise session for the performance assessment of IR skills. ...
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Semi-automated dialogue act classification for situated social agents in games
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J Orkin... - Agents for games and simulations II, 2011 - Springer
... 149 Fig. 1. Screenshot from The Restaurant Game Current approaches to implementing natural
language dialogue systems in use in the video game industry are labor intensive, requiring
designers to anticipate human input and hand-author responses. ...
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[PDF] Growing a Spoken Language Interface on Amazon Mechanical Turk
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I McGraw, J Glass... - Proc. Interspeech2011, Florence, 2011 - people.csail.mit.edu
... 8(1), 2000. [13] A. Raux, D. Bohus, B. Langner, A. Black, and M. Eskenazi, "Do- ing research
on a deployed spoken dialogue system: One year of Let's Go! ... [15] B. Varadarajan, D. Yu, L. Deng,
and A. Acero, "Maximizing global entry reduction for active learning in speech ...
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Benefits and challenges of real-time uncertainty detection and adaptation in a spoken dialogue computer tutor
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K Forbes-Riley... - Speech Communication, 2011 - Elsevier
... We evaluate the performance of a spoken dialogue system that provides substantive dynamic
responses to automatically detected user affective states. ... This research is situated in the tutoring
domain, where the user is a student and the spoken dialogue system is a tutor. ...
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Pamini: A framework for assembling mixed-initiative human-robot interaction from generic interaction patterns
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J Peltason... - Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... state pro- tocol supports robotic learning within interaction by establishing mechanisms for
information trans- fer from the dialog system to the ... Also, mixed-initiative enables active learning,
where the learner provokes a situation providing new information instead of waiting un- til ...
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Using crowdsourcing for labelling emotional speech assets
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A Tarasov, SJ Delany... - 2010 - arrow.dit.ie
... [7] A. Brew, D. Greene, and P. Cunningham. Using Crowdsourcing and Active Learning to Track
Sentiment in Online Media. In Proc. ... Influence of Contextual Information in Emotion Annotation
for Spoken Dialogue Systems. Speech Communication, 50(5):416-433, 2008. ...
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Sample-efficient batch reinforcement learning for dialogue management optimization
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O Pietquin, M Geist, S Chandramohan... - ACM Transactions on ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
... widespread. Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) are such interfaces allowing people
to interact with a computer or any other machine (like a robot) using speech, which
is the most natural communication means for human beings. ...
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Modeling human-robot interaction based on generic interaction patterns
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J Peltason... - AAAI Report on Dialog with Robots, 2010 - aaai.org
... state protocol sup- ports learning within interaction by establishing mecha- nisms for information
transfer from the dialog system to the ... Moreover, mixed-initiative enables active learning, where
the learner provokes a situation providing new information instead of waiting until ...
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[PDF] Hierarchical reinforcement learning and hidden Markov models for task-oriented natural language generation
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N Dethlefs... - Proceedings of ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, OR, 2011 - aclweb.org
... generation us- ing graphical models and active learning. In Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computa- tional Linguistics (ACL), pages 1552-1561. Alice H. Oh and Alexander
I. Rudnicky. 2000. Stochas- tic language generation for spoken dialogue systems. ...
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Particle Swarm Optimization for Automatic Selection of Relevance Feedback Heuristics
PY Yin - Advances in Swarm Intelligence, 2010 - Springer
... Information retrieval techniques [1] have been intensively applied to many areas such as library
dialog systems, database retrieval, web-based multimedia ... Image Processing 9(1), 20-37 (2000)
8. Tong, S., Chang, EY: Support vector machine active learning for image retrieval. ...
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Human computation: a survey and taxonomy of a growing field
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AJ Quinn... - Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference ..., 2011 - dl.acm.org
... Active learning In machine learning, classifiers are software modules that can be
trained to recognize certain patterns in data (ie, outlines of common objects in an
image, fraudulent credit card transactions, spoken words, etc.). ...
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[PDF] Learning from Imbalanced and Incomplete Data: a Practical Approach
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W Chen - 2011 - cs.cmu.edu
... Abstract This thesis deals with an important issue in tutorial dialog systems for children, namely
off-task speech, wherein a user's spoken input strays away from the intended tutorial activity.
Off-task speech poses different levels of technical challenges to tutorial dialog systems. ...
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Online SLU model adaptation with a partial Oracle
P Gotab, G Damnati, F Bechet... - ... Annual Conference of ..., 2010 - isca-speech.org
... Deployed Spoken Dialog Systems (SDS) evolve quickly while new services are added or dropped,
and while users' be- haviour change. ... This strategy, even when used with an active learning
scheme, is costly as the transcription and annotation processes of the new collected ...
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Reflection and learning robustness in a natural language conceptual physics tutoring system
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A Ward - 2010 - challenger.library.pitt.edu
Page 1. REFLECTION AND LEARNING ROBUSTNESS IN A NATURAL LANGUAGE
CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS TUTORING SYSTEM by Arthur Ward MBA, Carnegie Mellon University
MS, Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of ...
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Controlling user perceptions of linguistic style: Trainable generation of personality traits
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F Mairesse... - Computational Linguistics, 2011 - MIT Press
... There is growing evidence that dialogue systems such as intelligent tutoring systems are more
effective if they can generate a range of different types of stylistic linguistic variation (Litman and
Forbes-Riley 2004, 2006; Porayska-Pomsta and Mellish 2004; Wang et al. ...
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Lessons Learned from Virtual Humans
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W Swartout - AI Magazine, 2010 - aaai.org
Page 1. The Institute for Creative Technologies was founded a decade ago to bring
together researchers working at the cutting edge of simulation technologies, such
as comput- er graphics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality ...
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Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue System for Humanoid Robot
Y Mu... - Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2010 ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... in humanoid robot developing, such as natural human-robot interaction, vision-based environment
understanding and navigation, object grasping and manipulation based on dexterous hand, active
learning of new ... Development of spoken dialogue system requires a wide ...
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A Stochastic Finite-State Transducer Approach to Spoken Dialog Management
LF Hurtado, J Planells, E Segarra... - ... Annual Conference of ..., 2010 - isca-speech.org
... We are interested in the study of the behavior of our Di- alog Manager with real users, and in
the application of active learning techniques to detect and to correct ... [2] Y. Esteve, C. Raymond,
F. Bechet, and RD Mori, "Conceptual Decoding for Spoken Dialog systems," in Proc. ...
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Toward better crowdsourced transcription: Transcription of a year of the Let's Go Bus Information System data
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G Parent... - Spoken Language Technology ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
... The Let's Go Bus Information System is a spoken dialog system used nightly by the Port Authority
of Allegheny County. ... Active learning could then be achieved by retraining the ASR with the new
data, thus improving accuracy and lowering the cost of MTurk by reducing the ...
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Self-understanding and self-extension: A systems and representational approach
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JL Wyatt, A Aydemir, M Brenner... - Autonomous Mental ..., 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Page 1. 282 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS MENTAL DEVELOPMENT,
VOL. 2, NO. 4, DECEMBER 2010 Self-Understanding and Self-Extension: A Systems
and Representational Approach Jeremy L. Wyatt, Alper ...
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Characteristic factors and components of different modules in expert systems for intelligent tutoring system
K Mishra... - International Journal of Advanced Intelligence ..., 2011 - Inderscience
... Zhang et al. (2006) addressed the manual and automatic labelling of a particular type of user
affect from spontaneous speech that they call the cognitive state in a tutorial dialogue system. ...
(2001) presented intelligent distributed environment for active learning (IDEAL), an ...
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Still Talking to Machines (Cognitively Speaking)
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S Young - Eleventh Annual Conference of the International ..., 2010 - isca-speech.org
... This overview article reviews the structure of a fully statisti- cal spoken dialogue system (SDS),
using as illustration, various systems and components built at Cambridge over the last few years. ...
The basic architecture of a statistical spoken dialogue system is shown in Fig. ...
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The Art to Make an Error: The Dilemma Between Prevention, Learning and Mitigation
K Bengler - Human Modelling in Assisted Transportation: Models, ..., 2011 - Springer
... In everyday life we can experience those systems in dialog system behavior of browsers. ... to
increase technical system deficits and make the system more error prone but to make the whole
HMS more error robust based context information for an active learning intelligent user. ...
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[PDF] Statistical Language Generation from Semantic Structures
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B Bohnet, S Mille... - Proceedings of the DepLing, 2011 - depling.org
Page 1. Statistical Language Generation from Semantic Structures Bernd Bohnet1,
Simon Mille2, Leo Wanner2,3 1 Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS)
Universität Stuttgart, {first-name.last-name}@ims.uni-stuttgart ...
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Automatic committed belief tagging
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V Prabhakaran, O Rambow... - Proceedings of the 23rd ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... A dialog act repre- sents the communicative intention of the speaker, and its recognition is crucial
for the building of dialog systems. ... Another direc- tion we are looking to extend this work is to em-
ploy active learning to overcome the shortcom- ings of a small training set. ...
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Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages
J Badenhorst, C van Heerden, M Davel... - Language resources and ..., 2011 - Springer
... There is a widespread belief that spoken dialog systems (SDSs) will have a significant impact
in the developing countries of Africa (Tucker and ... subsets of data from larger corpora, with the
smaller subset yielding comparable results, and (3) the use of active learning to optimise ...
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Memory-Based Learning
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W Daelemans... - The Handbook of ..., 2010 - Wiley Online Library
... dialogue history features (eg, pre- vious dialogue acts), and acoustic features of recognized
speech in the context of spoken dialogue systems. ... the classifier needs to be retrained preferably
with the availability of each new training example, eg, in active learning (Thompson et al ...
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A comparison of active navigation and passive observation of desktop models of future built environments
A Conniff, T Craig, R Laing... - Design Studies, 2010 - Elsevier
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On the Use of N-Gram Transducers for Dialogue Annotation
V Tamarit, CD Martínez-Hinarejos... - Spoken Dialogue Systems ..., 2011 - Springer
... Abstract The implementation of dialogue systems is one of the most interesting appli-
cations of language technologies. ... statistical models to obtain faster annotations is
really interesting for the devel- opment of dialogue systems. ...
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[PDF] Automatically Optimizing Utterance Classification Performance without Human in the Loop
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YC Ju... - 2011 - research.microsoft.com
... We also introduce two new algorithms that use naturally occurring confirmation information from
the dialog system to provide 'pseudo semantic ... Future work includes applying active learning
methods to select the best subset of the rejected utterances and the denied confirmation ...
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Do You See What I Mean? Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
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N Fitzpatrick... - 2010 - arrow.dit.ie
... Levy, 1984; Rheingold, 1993). The educational potential was soon explored through
early experimental dialogue systems, based on a 'socratic dialogue' methodology
(Feurzeig, Munter, Swets, & Breen, 1964). The first analysis ...
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[PDF] Defining (Human) Computation
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E Law - 2011 - crowdresearch.org
... Princeton University Press, 2005. 5. Horvitz, E. and Paek, T. Complementary computing: policies
for transferring callers from dialog systems to human receptionists. ... http://rtw.ml. cmu.edu/rtw/. 8.
Settles, B. Active Learning Literature Survey. Technical Report, 2009. ...
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Task transparency in learning by demonstration: gaze, pointing, and dialog
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NB dePalma - 2010 - smartech.gatech.edu
... By providing a basic dialog system along with the first order task learning framework,
task learning ... of communication have advantages over batch learning [38], or that
transparency in active learning improves performance [10]. ...
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[BOOK] Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech
G Tur, R De Mori - 2011 - books.google.com
... Call Flow to POMDP: How Dialogue Management Integrates with SLU 7.4 Benchmark Projects
and Data Sets 7.5 Time is Money: The Relationship between SLU and Overall Dialogue System
Performance 7.6 Conclusion References Chapter 8: Active Learning 8.1 Introduction ...
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[BOOK] Key issues in e-learning: research and practice
N Pachler... - 2011 - books.google.com
Page 1. Key Issues in e-Learning: Research and Practice Norbert Pachler and
Caroline Daly Page 2. Page 3. Key Issues in e-Learning: Research and Practice
Page 4. Also available from Continuum Key Ideas in Educational ...
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WALTER DAELEMANS AND
AVAN den BOSCH - The Handbook of Computational ..., 2010 - books.google.com
... dialogue history features (eg, pre- vious dialogue acts), and acoustic features of recognized
speech in the context of spoken dialogue systems. ... the classifier needs to be retrained preferably
with the availability of each new training example, eg, in active learning (Thompson et al ...
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[BOOK] Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on ELearning: Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 12-13 July 2010
I Ismail - 2010 - books.google.com
... University, Palestine Assessing Online Textual Feedback to Support Student Intrinsic Motivation
Using a Collaborative Text-Based Dialogue System: A Qualitative ... As part of her work for the Centre
for Excellence in Teaching and Learning-Active Learning in Computing at Leeds ...
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Multimodal semi-automated affect detection from conversational cues, gross body language, and facial features
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SK D'Mello... - User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2010 - Springer
... ITSs have emerged as valuable systems to promote active learning by capitalizing
on the benefits of one-on-one tutoring in an automated fashion (Dodds and Fletcher
2004; Koedinger and Cor- bett 2006; VanLehn et al. 2007). ...
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A POMDP approach to P300-based brain-computer interfaces
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J Park, KE Kim... - Proceedings of the 15th international conference ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
Page 1. A POMDP Approach to P300-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces Jaeyoung Park Dept.
of Computer Science KAIST Daejeon, Korea jypark@ai.kaist.ac.kr Kee-Eung Kim Dept. of
Computer Science KAIST Daejeon, Korea kekim@cs.kaist.ac.kr Sungho Jo Dept. ...
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Semi-supervised ranking for document retrieval
K Duh... - Computer Speech & Language, 2011 - Elsevier
... Figures/Tables. Figures/Tables - selected. References. References - selected. Computer
Speech & Language Volume 25, Issue 2, April 2011, Pages 261-281 Language and speech
issues in the engineering of companionable dialogue systems. ...
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Data-driven computational linguistics at FaMAF-UNC, Argentina
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G Infante-Lopez - Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Young ..., 2010 - dl.acm.org
... Luciana Benotti, investigates the addition of pragmatic abilities into dialogue systems. ... How- ever,
we have hopes that a more insightful charac- terization of the examples and smarter learning
tech- niques (semi-supervised, active learning) will im- prove the results for these ...
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[PDF] Statistical Dialogue Modelling
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M Gašic - 2011 - mi.eng.cam.ac.uk
... 1 1.1.1 Spoken dialogue system structure . . . . . 3 1.1.2 Dialogue management . . . . . ... 122 6.2.5
GP-Sarsa . . . . . 126 6.2.6 Active learning in Gaussian process reinforcement learn- ing . . . . . ...
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Exploration of student perceptions of autonomy, student-instructor dialogue and satisfaction in a web-based distance Russian language classroom: a mixed methods ...
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MV Kostina - 2011 - ir.uiowa.edu
Page 1. University of Iowa Iowa Research Online Theses and Dissertations 2011 Exploration
of student perceptions of autonomy, student-instructor dialogue and satisfaction in a web-based
distance Russian language classroom: a mixed methods study ...
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Multimodal fusion for multimedia analysis: a survey
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PK Atrey, MA Hossain, A El Saddik... - Multimedia Systems, 2010 - Springer
... However, in general, these rules are domain specific and defining the rules requires proper
knowledge of the domain. This fusion method is widely used in the domain of multimodal dialog
systems and sports video analysis. 3.2 Classification-based fusion methods ...
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[PDF] DETECTING OFF-TASK SPEECH
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W Chen - 2012 - cs.cmu.edu
... robot cooperation. Off-task speech input to computers presents both challenges and
opportunities for such dialog systems. ... As a prevalent speech event, off- task speech has been
acknowledged in many dialog systems, such as health communication ...
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[BOOK] Tactile guidance for policy adaptation
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BD Argall, EL Sauser... - 2011 - books.google.com
... Also available as a combined paper and online subscription. • Control of locomotion systems •
Behaviour based systems • Distributed systems • Multi-Robot Systems • Human-Robot Interaction •
Robot Safety • Physical Robot Interaction • Dialog Systems • Interface design ...
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Compilation of References Compilation of References
N Adamo-Villani, J Doublestein... - Virtual Immersive and 3D ..., 2010 - books.google.com
... 308-315), Trento, Italy, May 22-24, ACM Press. Christou, CG, & Bulthoff, HH (1999). View depen-
dence in scene recognition after active learning. Memory & Cognition, 27 (6), 996-1007. Clark,
K.(2002). Inspired 3D Character Animation. Portland, OR: Premier Press. 342 ...
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[PDF] A Decade Review of a Masters-Level Real-World-Projects Capstone Course
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CC Tappert... - 2011 - proc.isecon.org
... project. It is widely accepted that work in teams enhances learning by creating an
"active learning process." Student teams have been found particularly effective when
the students actually need each other to complete the project. ...
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[PDF] Project management and assessment of distributed teams in an online capstone masters-level information technology course
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CC Tappert... - Proc. 6th International Conf. e-Learning, 2011 - csis.pace.edu
... course the objective is to successfully complete a project. Research has shown that work in teams
enhances learning by creating an "active learning process." Student teams have been found
particularly ... ISECON 2005. J. Fu, "Design of Dialog Systems using VoiceXML," Proc. ...
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Speech Recognition by Machine, A Review
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MA Anusuya... - Arxiv preprint arXiv:1001.2267, 2010 - arxiv.org
Page 1. (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 6,
No. 3, 2009 Speech Recognition by Machine: A Review MAAnusuya Department of Computer
Science and Engineering Sri Jaya chamarajendra College of Engineering Mysore, India . ...
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[PDF] Multi-Modal Scene Understanding for Robotic Grasping
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J BOHG - 2011 - csc.kth.se
... We consider multiple modalities including monocular and stereo vision, haptic
sensing and information obtained through a human-robot dialog system. ... 67
5.1 System Overview . . . . . 68 5.2 Dialog System . . . . . ...
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[PDF] Elements for Learning and Optimizing Expensive Fuctions
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P Rolet - 2010 - lri.fr
... A key contribution of the present work is to formalize both active learning and optimization as
Markov decision processes. ... Dialogue systems An automated machine must interact with a user
to acquire information and perform actions (eg interactive voice response for a ...
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MENON: automating a Socratic teaching model for mathematical proofs
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D Tsovaltzi - 2010 - scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de
... 45 1.2 The architecture of the prototype NL tutorial dialogue system of the Dialog
project . . . . . ... Moreover, the use of teaching strategies that abide by active learning
is be- coming a prerequisite for tutoring systems. ...
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Human-Robot Interaction
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KS Jones... - Reviews of Human Factors and ..., 2011 - rev.sagepub.com
Page 1. CHAPTER 3 410388XXXXX10.1177/1557234X11410388Revie ws of Human Factors
and Ergonomics, Volume 7Human-Robot Interaction Human-Robot Interaction: Toward Usable
Personal Service Robots Keith S. Jones & Elizabeth A. Schmidlin ...
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Beyond Timbral Statistics: Improving Music Classification Using Percussive Patterns and Bass Lines
E Tsunoo, G Tzanetakis, N Ono... - Audio, Speech, and ..., 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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must be obtained from the IEEE by emailing pubs-permissions@ieee.org. This article has been
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Spoken Language Understanding: from Spoken Utterances to Semantic Structures
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M Dinarelli - 2010 - eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it
... repeated until the application completes the modelled task. Spoken dialog systems need
sophisticated SLU models in order to im- plement dialog applications that go beyond solving
simple tasks like call ... for named-entities extraction. An active-learning framework is integrated ...
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[PDF] Agreement Technologies Handbook Chapter Chapter on Norms (DRAFT)
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G Andrighetto... - 2011 - agreement-technologies.eu
... These aspects can be explored further. Another limitation of current simulation-based works
on norms is the lack of consideration of all the three aspects of active learning on the part of
an agent (ie learning based on doing, observing and communicating). ...
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[PDF] Mixed-Initiative Clustering
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Y Huang - 2010 - Citeseer
... The primitive communication languages in active learning would fail to assist a collaborative
user in ... If we want to embed natural language communication in mixed-initiative clustering, it is
necessary to design a dialogue system capable of discussing a clustering task, but that ...
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Un método de aprendizaje semi-supervisado para comprensión del habla
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L Ortega Álvarez - 2011 - riunet.upv.es
... We applied this algorithm to the development of the understanding module of a spoken
dialogue system, whose task is access to information about trains. ... a percentage of smaller
input sentences, later, through a process of active learning to be able ...
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[PDF] Reinforcement Learning Without Rewards
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UA Syed - 2010 - cs.princeton.edu
... Similarly, in active learning, a very small number of emails are labeled in an incremental fashion, ...
the mentor's behavior. We apply our method to the problem of modeling the behavior of users
in a spoken dialog system, who typically behave in a goal-directed manner, ...
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[BOOK] Education and technology: key issues and debates
N Selwyn - 2011 - books.google.com
Page 1. Education and Technology Key Issues and Debates Neil Selwyn Page 2.
Education and Technolo Key Issues and Debates Neil Selwyn Page 3. Education
and Technology A companion website to accompany this book ...
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Identifying prosodic prominence patterns for English text-to-speech synthesis
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L Badino - 2010 - era.lib.ed.ac.uk
... 122 5.4.4 Active Learning SVM for contrast labelling . . . . ... Page 19. Chapter 1. Introduction 7 tences
or when it is integrated within a dialogue system (usually working on limited domains, eg flight
booking) that provides all the necessary contextual information to the TTS system. ...
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Éléments pour l'Apprentissage et l'Optimisation de Fonctions Chères
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P Rolet - 2010 - tel.archives-ouvertes.fr
... The first contribution was the conception and development of a new approach of active learning,
based on reinforcement learning. ... The second contribution is focused on the potential and limits
of both active learning and expensive optimization, from a theoretical point of view. ...
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