Schedule
The course meeting periods will consist of approximately 1/2 lectures by the instructors, and 1/2 group discussion of research papers on selected topics, mostly led by students. In the last two weeks, students will present their course projects.
| Week | Topic | Date | Presenter | Rapporteur |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the course, Overview of dialogue research and dialogue systems Assignment 1, due week 2 | Wed 01/15 | Traum | |
| 2 | Overview of Discourse and Dialogue Structure Assignment 2, due week 4 | Wed 01/22 | Traum | |
| 3 | Dialogue System Architectures & Modules, Approaches to Dialogue Management I: Structure, Frame, Information State | Wed 01/29 | Traum | |
| 4 | Approaches to Dialogue Management II: AI Planning, Plan and Logic-based approaches, Information State Part II Assignment 2 Due | Wed 02/05 | Traum | |
| 5 | Conversational Grounding and Error-handling Choice of Presentation Topics Due (by midnight Thursday 2/13) Assignment 3 | Wed 02/12 | Traum | |
| 6 | Dialogue System data collection and evaluation | Wed 02/19 | Traum | |
| 7 | Reinforcement Learning Approaches to Dialogue and Simulated Users Project whitepaper due by midnight Sunday March 2nd Selection of Rapporteur Topic | Wed 02/26 | Guest Lecturer: Professor Kallirroi Georgila | |
| 8 | Multiparty & Multifloor Dialogue All project groups or individual sign up to meet with instructor | Wed 03/05 | Traum | |
| 9 | Dialogue & Identity, Ethical Issues for Dialogue Systems Assignment 3 due Monday March 10th 11:59pm | Wed 03/12 | Traum | Spring Recess: no class | Wed 03/19 |
| 10 | Student Presentations/Discussions #1 Human-robot Dialogue Interaction Incremental Dialogue Processing Dialogue Act Recognition | Wed 03/26 | David Chu Kaleen Shrestha Zheijian Zhou Lei Liu | Rebecca Dorn Lei Liu TBA Tianyi Zhang |
| 11 | Student Presentations/Discussions #2 Dialogue with Different User Populations Storytelling Dialogue Project Proposal Due Monday April 7th | Wed 04/02 | Rebecca Dorn Patrick Gerard Han Kyul Kim | David Chu Han Kyul Kim Tran Huy Nguyen |
| 12 | Student Presentations/Discussions #3 Information Structure & Prosody Dialogue Genres Communication Processing for Dialogue Dialogue Tracking in other language processing Systems | Wed 04/09 | Tooraj Helmi Zijie Lei Junjun Liu Maksim Siniukov Sachin Kumar Gupta | Patrick Gerard Kaleen Shrestha Yanze Wang Mahtab Movahhedrad Junjun Liu |
| 13 | Student Presentations/Discussions #4: Non-cooperative Dialogue Systems | Wed 04/16 | Tran Huy Nguyen Anirudh Ravi Kumar Debaditya Pal Yanze Wang | Bin Han Tuan Ngo Zijie Lei |
| 14 | Student Presentations/Discussions #5: Embodied Conversational Agents Dialogue Systems for Language Learning Personalized Dialogue Systems | Wed 04/23 | Bin Han Tuan Ngo Mahtab Movahhedrad Tianyi Zhang | Debaditya Pal Maksim Siniukov Sachin Kumar Gupta Tooraj Helmi Anirudh Ravi Kumar Zhejian Zhou |
| Student Presentations of Course Projects | ||||
| 15 | First set of students | Wed 04/30 | ||
| 16 |
Final Exam Slot: (2-4pm) Second set of students Project Report Due | Mon 05/12 | ||