Using a Deep Learning Dialogue Research Toolkit in a Multilingual Multidomain Practical Application

Abstract

The demo shows a practical application of an open-source research toolkit developed by University of Cambridge. The toolkit (PyDial) supports research on deep reinforcement learning for multi-domain dialogues. The application (CityTalk) is a spoken dialogue system for robots that give information to tourists about local hotels and restaurants. We had a very positive experience using the toolkit, but in a few areas we decided to do things our own way.

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Text

Wilcock. "Using a Deep Learning Dialogue Research Toolkit in a Multilingual Multidomain Practical Application." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018. doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2018/869

Markdown

[Wilcock. "Using a Deep Learning Dialogue Research Toolkit in a Multilingual Multidomain Practical Application." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2018/wilcock2018ijcai-using/) doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2018/869

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wilcock2018ijcai-using,
  title     = {{Using a Deep Learning Dialogue Research Toolkit in a Multilingual Multidomain Practical Application}},
  author    = {Wilcock, Graham},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2018},
  pages     = {5880-5882},
  doi       = {10.24963/IJCAI.2018/869},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2018/wilcock2018ijcai-using/}
}