Spring 2018
Schedule TBD
| Date | Topic | Readings | Assignments |
| Jan 12 | Overview & identification of interesting topics | Jurafksy on Chatbots | For background from SLP: CH 29 SLP Dialogs and Chatbots & CH 30 Advanced Dialog Systems |
| Jan 16 | Invited speaker | ||
| Jan 19 | What’s Alexa doing? | “Sounding Board”, Winner of the AlexaPrize | |
| Jan 23 | NLG in Dialog: Notes | Review materials on class GoogleDocs | |
| Jan 26 | Referring expressions | Generating Referring Expressions, Dale & Haddock | Read an additional paper from Zotero/NLG/Reference in NLG
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| Jan 30 | Class notes: Talking with Robots | Situated Dialogue Processing form Human-Robot Interaction. | Find additional papers related to this one and put the paper and you notes in Docs. |
| Feb 2 | Talking with Robots (cont). | Exploiting deep semantics and compositionality for Human Robotic Interaction | Continue extending “Talking with Robots” page in Docs. |
| Feb 6 | No class | ||
| Feb 9 | Summary of Conversational Interactions | ||
| Feb 13 | Class notes: Deep learning for NLG | Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems. | |
| Feb 16 | Deep learning for NLG | Learning Symmetric Collaborative Dialogue Agents with Dynamic Knowledge Graph Embeddings | Find additional papers related to this one and put the paper and you notes in Docs. |
| Feb 20 | BREAK | —— | —— |
| Feb 23 | BREAK | —— | —— |
| Feb 27 | Finish DNNS, start tools | Jurafsky, RNNs & RL | Select a toolkit (dialog.ai, alexa, etc.) and discuss a possible project |
| Mar 2 | Notes on commercial dialog tools | ||
| Mar 6 | Project outlines | ||
| Mar 9 | Project updates | ||
| Mar 13 | Snow day | ||
| Mar 16 | Project updates | ||
| Mar 20 | Project updates | ||
| Mar 23 | Project updates | ||
| Mar 27 | Project updates | ||
| Mar 30 | BREAK | —— | —— |
| Apr 3 | BREAK | —— | —— |
| Apr 6 | BREAK | —— | —— |
| Apr 10 | POMDPs for Dialog Management | ||
| Apr 13 | POMDPs & dialog tools | ||
| Apr 17 | Dialog State Challenges | ||
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| TBD | Final Presentations |