@MISC{Lison_policyactivation, author = {Pierre Lison and Geert-jan M. Kruijff}, title = {Policy activation for open-ended dialogue management}, year = {} }
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Abstract
An important difficulty in developing spoken dialogue systems for robots is the open-ended nature of most interactions. Robotic agents must typically operate in complex, continuously changing environments which are difficult to model and do not provide any clear, pre-defined goal. Directly capturing this complexity in a single, large dialogue policy is thus inadequate. This paper presents a new approach which tackles the com-plexity of open-ended interactions by breaking it into a set of small, independent policies, which can be acti-vated and deactivated at runtime by a dedicated mecha-nism. The approach is currently being implemented in a spoken dialogue system for autonomous robots.