[IR Series] - Hua Ai - Friday, May 15 2009, noon - NSH 3002

[Grace Hui Yang]

Just a reminder for tomorrow's IR-series.

> Greetings,
>
> Please join us for our IR-Series talk this Friday noon!  Lunch will be 
> provided by Yahoo!.
>
> Speaker: Hua Ai (Intelligent Systems Program at University of Pittsburgh)
>
> Date/Time: Friday May 15, 2009, noon
> Location: 3002 Newell-Simon Hall (NSH)
>
> User Simulation for Spoken Dialog System Development
>
> Abstract:
> In this talk, I will present my thesis study on investigating how to
> evaluate and how to build user simulations to help dialog system
> development. When evaluating user simulations, I use both human judges 
> and
> automatic evaluation measures to assess the simulation model qualities.
> When building user simulations, I examine three factors that impact
> simulation models in the tasks of dialog strategy learning and dialog
> system development.
>
> The talk is based on the author's ACL 2009 paper.
>
> Grace, Jaime & Jon
>