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Special Topic: Dialogue Tracking in Language Processing Systems

Required Readings (for all students)

  1. Purver, Matthew, John Dowding, John Niekrasz, Patrick Ehlen, Sharareh Noorbaloochi, and Stanley Peters. Detecting and summarizing action items in multi-party dialogue. In Proceedings of the 8th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, pp. 18-25. 2007.

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

  1. Jan Alexandersson, Norbert Reithinger, Elisabeth Maier. Insights into the Dialogue Processing of VERBMOBIL.  Verbmobil-Report 191. DFKI GmbH Saarbrƒken. March 1997. 
  2. Bangalore, Srinivas, Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Prakash Kolan, Ladan Golipour, and Aura Jimenez. Real-time incremental speech-to-speech translation of dialogs. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pp. 437-445. 2012.
  3. Liu, Siyou, Yuqi Sun, and Longyue Wang. Recent advances in dialogue machine translation. Information 12.11 (2021): 484.
  4. Jamin Shin, Hangyeol Yu, Hyeongdon Moon, Andrea Madotto, and Juneyoung Park. Dialogue Summaries as Dialogue States (DS2), Template-Guided Summarization for Few-shot Dialogue State Tracking. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, pages 3824–3846, Dublin, Ireland.

Other Readings
  1. Klaus Zechner, 2001. Automatic Generation of Concise Summaries of Spoken Dialogues in Unrestricted Domains. Proceedings of the 24th ACM-SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans, LA, September 2001
  2. Alex Waibel, Michael Bett, Florian Metze, Klaus Ries, Thomas Schaaf, Tanja Schultz, Hagen Soltau, Hua Yu, and Klaus Zechner, 2001. Advances in Automatic Meeting Record Creation and Access. Proceedings of ICASSP-2001, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001.
  3. Boufaden, G. Lapalme, and Y. Bengio. Topic segmentation : First Stage of Dialogue-Based  Information extraction Process.  In Proceedings of the Natural Language Pacific Rim Symposium,  NLPRS-01, 2001
  4. Renals, Steve. Recognition and understanding of meetings. In Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1-9. 2010.
  5. Lulu Zhao, Fujia Zheng, Keqing He, Weihao Zeng, Yuejie Lei, Huixing Jiang, Wei Wu, Weiran Xu, Jun Guo, and Fanyu Meng. TODSum: Task-Oriented Dialogue Summarization with State Tracking. arXiv 2021.
  6. Qassem, Mutahar, and Miaad Mohammad Aldaheri. Can Machine Translate Dialogue Acts: Evidence from Translating Dialogues from English to Arabic. 3L: Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies 29.4 (2023).