CSCI-644: Natural Language Dialogue Systems - Spring 2024

Special Topics

During weeks 10-13, 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

• referring in dialogue

• turn-taking

• modeling affect in dialogue systems

• mixed-initiative

• multi-party dialogue (3 or more participants)

• incremental dialogue processing

• dialogue act taxonomies

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

Multimodal Dialogue

• embodied conversational agents

• human-robot dialogue interaction

• social robot dialogue

• physically situated dialogue

Communication Processing for Dialogue

• recognizing user affect in dialogue systems

• modeling information structure and generating prosody

• recognition and understanding of prosody

• dialogue act recognition

• natural language understanding for dialogue

• natural language generation for dialogue

• speech processing for dialogue

• dialogue tracking in other language processing systems (machine translation, summarization/extraction)

• simulation of dialogue

Dialogue User Differences

• dialogue with different user populations (children, elderly, differently abled)

• culture-specific dialogue systems