... Walker, 2000; Scheffler and Young, 2002; Peek and Chickering, 2005; Frampton and Lemon, 2006), for selecting initiative and con-firmation strategies (Singh et al., 2002); for detect-ing speech ... effectivedialogue strategies for information seeking spo-ken dialogue systems, and in particular the use ofreinforcement learning methods to learn policies for action selection in dialogue management ... be-forehand which of them would be most effective.The automatically generated dialogue policy isvery similar (see Table 4) –but arguably improved inmany details– to the hand-designed policy for...