Advanced Dialogue Modeling for Practical Applications

General course description in Course List WS 2008/2009

Themes

• Approaches to dialogue modeling and dialogue management
• Establishing common ground, verification and clarification strategies
• Initiative
• Negotiation
• Advanced dialogue system applications:
  • Problem solving, decision support
  • Tutorial dialogue systems
  • Training in simulations involving dialogue
  • Linguistic and social competence development
  • Cognitive systems
• Adaptation to users (audience design)
• Machine learning of dialogue strategies