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GoChat: Goal-oriented Chatbots with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2020
A chatbot that converses like a human should be goal-oriented (i.e., be purposeful in conversation), which is beyond language generation. However, existing dialogue systems often heavily rely on cumbersome hand-crafted rules or costly labelled datasets to reach the goals. In this paper, we propose Goal-oriented Chatbots (GoChat), a framework for end-to-
Liu, Jianfeng, Pan, Feiyang, Luo, Ling
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Strategic management of salespeople when promoting new products [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of salespeople when selling new products (namely, electronic goods) in a business-to-business (B2B) context by incorporating the organizations’ perceived psychological climate into goal ...
Chen, A.H.   +5 more
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No-Regret Exploration in Goal-Oriented Reinforcement Learning

open access: yes, 2019
Many popular reinforcement learning problems (e.g., navigation in a maze, some Atari games, mountain car) are instances of the episodic setting under its stochastic shortest path (SSP) formulation, where an agent has to achieve a goal state while minimizing the cumulative cost.
Tarbouriech, Jean   +4 more
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Goal orientation and mastery climate: a review of contemporary research and insights to intervention [PDF]

open access: yesEstudos de Psicologia (Campinas), 2006
This manuscript is a review of human achievement motivational theory, that emphases goal orientation and mastery climates. Specifically, it provides an overview of goal orientation researches and discusses how much the implementation of motivational ...
Nadia Cristina Valentini   +1 more
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Academic Goal Orientation: New Insights and Cultural Adaptation of Academic Goal Orientation Questionnaire into the Turkish Language

open access: yesGeorgia Educational Researcher, 2021
This study aims to review and provide new perspectives for academic goal orientation. The study introduces first chronological history of goal orientation and depicts how goal orientation evolved into a new construct in learning from the discussion on ...
Fuat Findikoglu, Mehmet Gurol
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Learning with desktop virtual reality: changes and interrelationship of self-efficacy, goal orientation, technology acceptance and learning behavior

open access: yesSmart Learning Environments, 2022
With advantages such as ease of use and low cost, desktop virtual reality (VR) technologies are increasingly being used in practical learning. This study aims to clarify the relationship among students' self-efficacy, goal orientation, technology ...
Yan Luo, Huan Du
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Effects of goal orientation on environment management in technology-based physics learning

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
The purpose of the current study is to propose and examine a comprehensive model that uses motivational and self-regulated variables to explain factors affecting environment management in technology-based physics learning among Chinese secondary school ...
Yanchao Yang   +5 more
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Beyond Tenure: Building Managerial Competencies through Developmental Assignments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Key Findings: • The developmental quality of job assignments is critical for building managerial competencies. What matters most isn’t how long junior managers have been in an assignment, but the nature of that assignment. • Not all junior
Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, ILR School, Cornell University
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Empowerment in the Public Sector: Testing the Influence of Goal Orientation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Empowerment has emerged as an important new issue in the public sector organization setting in the wake of mainstream new public management (NPM). Nevertheless, few studies in this frame have combined structural (managerial) and psychological (individual)
Escrig-Tena, Ana B.   +2 more
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Shared Leadership Improves Team Novelty: The Mechanism and Its Boundary Condition

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Previous research has revealed the significant impact of shared leadership on team creativity, yet the mechanism underlying this relationship has rarely been investigated.
Xiaomin Sun   +4 more
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