Advanced Dialogue Modeling for Practical Applications

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová

Schedule

30.10.08
Overview, scheduling

6.11.08 (IKK) PDF
Introduction: Issues in dialogue modeling, approaches to dialogue management
[McTear 2002]; [Jurafsky and Martin 2000: Chapter 19] OR [Jurafsky and Martin 2008: Chapter 24]; [Allen et al. 2001]

13.11.08 (IKK) PDF
Grounding: theoretical background, computational modeling
[Traum 1999]; [Clark and Schaeffer 1989]; [Clark 1996: Chapter 4]

20.11.08 (Míra) PDF
Grounding (cont'd): practical verification strategies
[Aust et al. 1995: Section 3]; [San-Segundo et al. 2001]; [Larsson 2003]; [Hockey et al. 2003] OR [Gorrell et al. 2002]

27.11.08 (Alexander)PDF
Negotiation:
[Traum et al. 2008]; Additional material: see citations [4]/[5] and [21]/[22] in the paper

4.12.08 (Fabian) PDF
Plan-Inference-based dialogue management; Shared Plans
[Sidner 2004]; [Rich et al. 2001];
Additional background: [Grosz and Sidner 1990]; [Grosz and Sidner 1986]; [Lochbaum 1998]

11.12.08 (Lisa) PDF
Collaborative problem solving
[Blaylock et al. 2003]; [Blaylock 2007]; [Allen et al. 2001]

18.12.08 (Raveesh) PDF
Negotiation
[Chu-Carroll and Carberry 2000]; [Sidner 1994]

8.1.09 (Faisal) PDF
Tutorial dialogue
[Core et al. 2000]; [Graesser et al. 2004]; [Rickel et al. 2002]

15.1.09 (Elahi)
Information-State-Update-based dialogue management; Dialogue modeling using Questions-Under-Discussion
[Traum and Larsson 2003] or [Larsson and Traum 2000]; [Cooper and Larsson 2005]; [Larsson 2003]; [Ginzburg 1996]

22.1.09 Session cancelled due to illness.

29.1.09 (Verena)
Social dialogue and linguistic competence development
[Bickmore and Cassell 2004]; [Ryokai et al. 2003]; [Cassell 2004]
[Traum and Rickel 2002]; [Randall et al. 2003]

5.2.09 (Zhengan)
Machine learning of dialogue strategies
[Frampton and Lemon 2006]; [Walker 2000]; [Singh et al. 2002]

12.2.09 (Milos)
Adaptation to users
[Walker et al. 2004]; [Moore et al. 2004]; [Foster and White 2005]