Special Topic: Communication Processing for Dialogue

Required Readings (for all students)

  1. Faruqui, Manaal, and Dilek Hakkani-Tür. Revisiting the Boundary between ASR and NLU in the Age of Conversational Dialog Systems. Computational Linguistics 48, no. 1 (2022): 221-232.

Required Readings(for presenter(s) and rapporteur(s))

  1. Pieraccini, Roberto. Natural language understanding in socially interactive agents. The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 1: Methods, Behavior, Cognition. 2021. 147-172.
  2. Park, Sangjun, and Jinyeong Bak. Memoria: Resolving Fateful Forgetting Problem through Human-Inspired Memory Architecture. International Conference on Machine Learning. PMLR, 2024.
  3. Ohashi, Atsumoto, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka. Adaptive Natural Language Generation for Task-oriented Dialogue via Reinforcement Learning.In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pp. 242-252. 2022.
  4. Aylett, Matthew P., Leigh Clark, Benjamin R. Cowan, and Ilaria Torre. Building and designing expressive speech synthesis. In The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 1: Methods, Behavior, Cognition, pp. 173-212. 2021.

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