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Special Topic: Dialogue Systems for Language Learning

Required Readings

  1. Lewis, W. Johnson (2010). Serious use of a serious game for language learning. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 20(2), 175-195.
  2. Alicia Sagae, W. Lewis Johnson, and Stephen Bodnar. 2010. Validation of a dialog system for language learners. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL '10). Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 241-244.
  3. Li, Kuo-Chen, Maiga Chang, and Kuan-Hsing Wu. "Developing a task-based dialogue system for English language learning." Education Sciences 10.11 (2020): 306.
  4. Bibauw, Serge, Thomas François, and Piet Desmet. "Dialogue systems for language learning: Chatbots and beyond." The Routledge handbook of second language acquisition and technology. Routledge, 2022. 121-135.

Other Readings
  1. Raux, Antoine / Eskenazi, Maxine Using task-oriented spoken dialogue systems for language learning: potential, practical applications and challenges, In ICALL-2004.
  2. Jose Lopes, Olov Engwall, Gabriel Skantze, A First Visit to the Robot Language Cafe in proceedings of SLaTE 2017 Workshop.
  3. Alistair Knott and Peter Vlugter. 2008. Multi-agent human-machine dialogue: issues in dialogue management and referring expression semantics. Artif. Intell., 172(2-3):69–102.
  4. Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis Supervised Learning of Response Grammars in a Spoken Call System SLaTE 2015 Workshop.
  5. Hazel Morton, Nancie Gunson, and Mervyn Jack, Interactive Language Learning through Speech-Enabled Virtual Scenarios Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 2012, Article ID 389523, 14 pages, 2012.
  6. Wang N., Johnson W.L. (2008) The Politeness Effect in an Intelligent Foreign Language Tutoring System. In: Woolf B.P., Aïmeur E., Nkambou R., Lajoie S. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5091. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  7. Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Keelan Evanini, Ashley Green, Ian Blood, Judit Dombi and Vikram Ramanarayanan (2017). Designing interactive, automated dialogues for L2 pragmatics learning, in proceedings of: 21st Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2017 - SaarDial), Saarbrucken, Germany, Aug 2017
  8. Brixey, Jacqueline, and David Traum. "Masheli: A Choctaw-English Bilingual Chatbot." Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade (2021): 41-50.