@InProceedings{padmakumar-thomason-mooney:2017:EACLlong,
  author    = {Padmakumar, Aishwarya  and  Thomason, Jesse  and  Mooney, Raymond J.},
  title     = {Integrated Learning of Dialog Strategies and Semantic Parsing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {547--557},
  abstract  = {Natural language understanding and dialog management are two integral
	components of interactive dialog systems. Previous research has used machine
	learning techniques to individually optimize these components, with different
	forms of direct and indirect supervision. We present an approach to integrate
	the learning of both a dialog strategy using reinforcement learning, and a
	semantic parser for robust natural language understanding, using only natural
	dialog interaction for supervision. Experimental results on a simulated task of
	robot instruction demonstrate that joint learning of both components improves
	dialog performance over learning either of these components alone.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/E17-1052}
}