Quantitative Evaluation of User Simulation Techniques for Spoken Dialogue Systems. - Jost Schatzmann; Kallirroi Georgila; Steve J. Young (SIGDIAL Workshop, 2005)

A survey of statistical user simulation techniques for reinforcement-learning of dialogue management strategies. - Jost Schatzmann; Karl Weilhammer; Matthew N. Stuttle; Steve J. Young (Knowl. Eng. Rev., 2006)

Error simulation for training statistical dialogue systems. - Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Steve J. Young (ASRU, 2007)

The Hidden Information State Approach to Dialog Management. - Steve J. Young; Jost Schatzmann; Karl Weilhammer; Hui Ye 002 (ICASSP (4), 2007)

Agenda-Based User Simulation for Bootstrapping a POMDP Dialogue System. - Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Karl Weilhammer; Hui Ye 002; Steve J. Young (HLT-NAACL (Short Papers), 2007)

The Hidden Information State Dialogue Manager: A Real-World POMDP-Based System. - Steve J. Young; Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Karl Weilhammer; Hui Ye 002 (HLT-NAACL (Demonstrations), 2007)

Statistical User Simulation with a Hidden Agenda. - Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Steve J. Young (SIGdial, 2007)

Bayesian update of dialogue state for robust dialogue systems. - Blaise Thomson; Jost Schatzmann; Steve J. Young (ICASSP, 2008)

User study of the Bayesian update of dialogue state approach to dialogue management. - Blaise Thomson; Milica Gasic; Simon Keizer; François Mairesse; Jost Schatzmann; Kai Yu 004; Steve J. Young (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Evaluating semantic-level confidence scores with multiple hypotheses. - Blaise Thomson; Kai Yu 004; Milica Gasic; Simon Keizer; François Mairesse; Jost Schatzmann; Steve J. Young (INTERSPEECH, 2008)

Training and Evaluation of the HIS POMDP Dialogue System in Noise. - Milica Gasic; Simon Keizer; François Mairesse; Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Kai Yu 004; Steve J. Young (SIGDIAL Workshop, 2008)

The Hidden Agenda User Simulation Model. - Jost Schatzmann; Steve J. Young (IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2009)

The Hidden Information State model: A practical framework for POMDP-based spoken dialogue management. - Steve J. Young; Milica Gasic; Simon Keizer; François Mairesse; Jost Schatzmann; Blaise Thomson; Kai Yu 004 (Comput. Speech Lang., 2010)