Title
Importance-Driven Turn-Bidding for spoken dialogue systems
Abstract
Current turn-taking approaches for spoken dialogue systems rely on the speaker releasing the turn before the other can take it. This reliance results in restricted interactions that can lead to inefficient dialogues. In this paper we present a model we refer to as Importance-Driven Turn-Bidding that treats turn-taking as a negotiative process. Each conversant bids for the turn based on the importance of the intended utterance, and Reinforcement Learning is used to indirectly learn this parameter. We find that Importance-Driven Turn-Bidding performs better than two current turn-taking approaches in an artificial collaborative slot-filling domain. The negotiative nature of this model creates efficient dialogues, and supports the improvement of mixed-initiative interaction.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
ACL
inefficient dialogue,efficient dialogue,importance-driven turn-bidding,dialogue system,conversant bid,current turn-taking approach,reinforcement learning,negotiative nature,artificial collaborative,negotiative process
Field
DocType
Volume
Turns, rounds and time-keeping systems in games,Computer science,Utterance,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Bidding,Reinforcement learning
Conference
P10-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.11
17
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ethan O. Selfridge1565.41
Peter A. Heeman241763.65