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USING POMDPS FOR DIALOG MANAGEMENT

This paper explains how partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) can provide a principled mathematical framework for modelling the inherent uncertainty in spoken dialog systems. It briefly summarises the basic mathematics and explains why exact optimisation is intractable. It then describes a form of approximation called the Hidden Information State model which does scale and which can be used to build practical systems.