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Dialogue Systems Group |
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Welcome to the Dialogue Systems Group at Cambridge!The Dialogue Systems group which is part of the CUED Speech Group is led by Prof Steve Young . The work of the group centres on the use of statistical approaches to Spoken Dialogue Systems. The aim is to design systems that can be trained on real dialogue data and which explicitly model the uncertainty present in human-machine interaction. The potential benefits include reduced deployment costs, more robust operation in adverse environments and the ability to adapt on-line. Recent work has primarily focused on the application of Partially-Observable Markov Decision Processes and machine learning techniques to dialogue management and policy design. To see a statistical Spoken Dialogue System operating in the Tourist Information Domain watch a recent demo . The Dialogue Sysems Group is also responsible for the ATK Real-time Toolkit for building spoken dialogue systems using resources developed using HTK . The group is currently funded by the EU FP7 CLASSiC project as well as by an EPSRC grant.
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