CSCI-644: Natural Language Dialogue Systems - Spring 2024

Project Ideas

Here are some project ideas from previous years:

• Personalizing dialogue agents - giving a persona to the agent

• Predicting utterance type and speaker role in dialogues

• Interactive character impersonator - a dialogue system impersonating a historical character

• Expanding interactive fiction parsing with NLP and WordNet - users play a text-based adventure game and utterances are parsed to infer their meaning

• Using reinforcement learning for dialogue policy learning

• Conversational question answering

• Character-based dialogue generation - instead of words everything is based on characters

• Code-switching dialogue - switch between different languages in a conversation

• Using graphs to encode a conversation

• Sentence classification in a domain with a companion robot