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Special Topic: Dialogue Systems for Language Learning

Required Readings (for all students)

  1. 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.
Required Readings(for presenter(s) and rapporteur(s))

  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. Jose Lopes, Olov Engwall, Gabriel Skantze, A First Visit to the Robot Language Cafe in proceedings of SLaTE 2017 Workshop.
  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. Young, J. C., & Shishido, M. (2023). Investigating OpenAI’s ChatGPT potentials in generating Chatbot's dialogue for English as a foreign language learning. International journal of advanced computer science and applications, 14(6).
  5. Jacqueline Brixey and David Traum Does a code-switching dialogue system help users learn conversational fluency in Choctaw? To be presented at 5th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, May 4, 2025.

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. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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 2010). Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, 241-244.
  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. Manny Rayner, Claudia Baur, Cathy Chua, Nikos Tsourakis Supervised Learning of Response Grammars in a Spoken Call System SLaTE 2015 Workshop.
  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.
  9. Bibauw, S., François, T., Van den Noortgate, W., & Desmet, P. (2022). Dialogue systems for language learning: a meta-analysis. Language Learning & Technology, 26(1).
  10. Jeon, Jaeho, Seongyong Lee, and Hohsung Choe. Beyond ChatGPT: A conceptual framework and systematic review of speech-recognition chatbots for language learning. Computers & Education 206 (2023): 104898.