Special Topics
During weeks 10-14, students will lead discussions of papers on selected research topics. Actual topics will be decided based on interest of students, but will be selected from among themes including:- Advanced Dialogue Phenomena
- Genres and Types of Dialogue
- dialogue genres: task-oriented, tutoring, casual conversation, information-seeking
- non-cooperative dialogue systems (negotiation, deception)
- Navigation Dialogue
- Visual Dialogue
- Chat Dialogue
- tutorial dialogue
- dialogue systems for language learning
- storytelling dialogue
- argumentation dialogue
- companion dialogue systems
- Dialogue Systems for Mental Health
- Multimodal Dialogue
- Communication Processing for Dialogue
- recognizing user affect in dialogue systems
- modelling information structure and generating prosody
- recognition and understanding of prosody
- dialogue act recognition,
- nlg for dialogue
- speech processing for dialogue
- dialogue tracking in other language-processing systems (machine translation, summarization/extraction)
- simulation of dialogue
- Dialogue user differences