McEleney, BryanBryanMcEleneyO'Hare, G. M. P. (Greg M. P.)G. M. P. (Greg M. P.)O'Hare2013-08-012013-08-012004-08-30http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4478ROBUST 2004 Research Workshop on Robustness Issues in Conversational Interaction, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, August 30-31, 2004An important tradeoff in error-prone dialogue is between the cost of using more robust dialogue strategies and the cost of recovering from failed understanding without using them. A strategy has to be quantitatively planned for each dialogue state, since too robust a strategy might not have a worthwhile effect on the failure rate. A dialogue manager is described which chooses between strategies that have differing levels of robustness with a view to maximising the efficiency of the dialogueenConference Publication2013-06-20https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/