CS 359: Topics in Artificial Intelligence

    Introduction to Discourse and Dialogue

 
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Schedule 

Class Reading Assignm.
I. SYLLABUS
[1] September 25.
Overview of Issues in Discourse and Dialogue
     
II. STRUCTURE OF DISCOURSE
[2] September 27.
General Structure of Discourse
- Brown & Yule (1983), Ch. 1
- Grosz et al. (1997)
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[3] October 2.
Reference I
- Halliday & Hasan (1976), Ch. 7
- Dale (1992), pp 1-15
- Jurafsky & Martin (2000) , p. 667-689
Assignment #1 DUE
[4] October 4.
Reference II
  • Brennan et al (1987)
  • Baldwin (2000)
  • Jurafsky & Martin (2000), p. 689-694
  • [5-6] October 9-11.
    What's New?
    - Prince (1988)
    - Chafe (1994), Ch. 13
    - McKeown (1983)
    - Terken (1984)
    -Hiyakumoto (1997)
    - Steedman& Prevost (1996)
    Assignment #2
    DUE Oct. 11
    [7] October 16.
    Intonation in Discourse - Continued
    Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg (1990)
    - Prevost (1996)
       
    [7-8] October 16-18.
    Intention & Purpose
    - Grice (1989), Ch. 2
    -Grosz & Sidner (1990)
    - Poesio & Traum  (1997)
    - [Levinson (1983)]

     
     
    October 23
    No class
    ISCA Workshop on Prosody
    in Speech Recognition and Understanding

     
     
    III. STRUCTURE OF DIALOGUE
    [9-10] Oct. 25-Oct 30
    Dialogue Management
    McTear 2001, Sections 3 and 5 Oct 25 Presenters:
    Brenart, Cates, Zhao
    Oct 30 Presenters:
    Zhang, Cipolla, He
    Presentations
    [11] November 1.
    Initializing and Breaking out of Conversation
    - Kendon (1990), Ch. 6
    -Cassell & Vilhjálmsson (1999)
    - [Schegloff (1968)]
    - [Schegloff & Sacks (1973)]
       
    [12] November 6.
    Turn-taking 
    - Duncan (1974)
    - Goodwin (1981), pp. 55-93
    - Shriberg et al. (2001)
    [prop]
    [14] November 8.
    Gesture 
    - McNeill (1992), Ch. 1
    - Cassell (to appear)
    - Guest Lecturer:
    Dr. David McNeill, Psychology
     
    IV. STYLE AND GENRE
    [15] November 13.
    Grounding and Discourse Markers
    - Goffman (1983), Ch. 3 
    - Schiffrin (1987), Ch. 3 & 10 
    - [Levinson (1988)]
    - Moser & Moore (1995)
    - Heeman et al. (1998)
    Samuel, Carberry, and Vijay-Shanker (1998)
     
    [16] November 15.
    Politeness and Genre
    - Brown & Levinson (1978), pp. 56-76
    -Walker et al. (1996)
    - Blum-Kulka (1987)
       
    [17] November 20.
     Initiative
    - Walker et al (1990)
    - Oviatt(1995);
    Computer Speech & Language 9 (1):19-35
    on-line @ UChicago
     

     

    [update]
    V. EVALUATION
    [18] November 27.
    Evaluating Language-Oriented Interactive Technologies
    - Walker et al. (1997)
    - Dahlbäck et al. (1993)
       
    December 1.
    Final Paper Due!
        [paper]