Work

Using Reinforcement Learning to Model Incrementality in a Fast-Paced Dialogue Game

Year: 2017

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We apply Reinforcement Learning (RL) to the problem of incremental dialogue policy learning in the context of a fast-paced dialogue game.We compare the policy learned by RL with a high performance baseline policy which has been shown to perform very efficiently (nearly as well as humans) in this dialogue game.The RL policy outperforms the baseline policy in offline simulations (based on real user data).We provide a detailed comparison of the RL policy and the baseline policy, including information about how much effort and time it took to develop each one of them.We also highlight the cases where the RL policy performs better, and show that understanding the RL policy can provide valuable insights which can inform the creation of an even better rule-based policy.

Source: Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

DOI: 10.18653/v1/w17-5539

Authors: Ramesh Manuvinakurike, David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila

Institutions: University of Southern California, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Language: English

Topic: Speech and dialogue systems

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: National Science Foundation, Army Research Laboratory

Awards: G3578614936, G5259331294, RI: Small: Incremental Speech Processing for Rapid Dialogue