Multi-Policy Dialogue Management

We present a new approach to dialogue management based on the use of multiple, interconnected policies. Instead of capturing the complexity of the interaction in a single large policy, the dialogue manager operates with a collection of small local policies combined concurrently and hierarchically. The metacontrol of these policies relies on an activation vector updated before and after each turn. Published in: Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011: the 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 294–300, Portland, Oregon, June 17-18, 2011.