Dialogue Management (Hauptseminar)
Plan for Summer Semester 2002

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~korbay/Lehre/DM-beschreibung.html

Requirements qualifying for a full seminar ``Schein''

• Presentation (Referat): Each student has to give a presentation at least once during the semester. A presentation by one student can cover an entire session, or two students can share a session.
• Question (Frage): Before each session (by Thursday 16:00), every student has to send me a question based on the reading assigned to that session.
• Paper (Hausarbeit): Each student has to write a paper of 4-10 pages on a chosen topic discussed with me. The deadline for delivering the papers is September 30, 2002. We shall have a final meeting during the first half of October, where everyone will give a short presentation of their paper and we'll have a discussion.
  Hausarbeit topics:
  • Susanne Horst: Comparison of human-human and human-machine dialogues
  soft copy
  • Kepa Rodrigues: Tutorial dialogue
  soft copy
  • Hagen Böhm: Dialogue modelling using FSA
  (deadline extended)
  • Michael Götze: Information structure and dialogue modelling
  soft copy
  • Joachim Walter: Approaches to dialogue system development (TrindiKit vs. CSLU toolkit/VoiceXML)
  soft copy
  • (Harald Lochert: Comparison of different approaches to dialogue modelling
  (small Schein only)

Literature

Most of the cited works are available on the internet, and URLs are included in the citations when possible. When not, best place to try looking for electronic versions is google search engine When you get desperate, do not hesitate to come and ask me!

Further links

For an unsorted list of some useful and/or interesting dialogue links look [here].

Semester Plan

• Session 1 (19.4.) (presenter: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová; slides):
  Introduction: dialogue management Issues
  Basic reading for the entire seminar: [25, Chapter 19]

• Session 2 (26.4.) (presenter: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová):
  Overview of dialogue management approaches
  Background reading: [3], [33], [8], [42]

• Session 3: UNUSUAL DAY & TIME: Thursday 2.5. 16-18!!!: (presenter: Dimitra Tsovaltzi; slides)
  Collaborative dialogue: joint intentions and shared plans; Collagen
  Basic reading: [36],[37]; Background reading: [6], [22], [30], [31]
  Students' questions

• Session 4 (10.5.) (presenter: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová; slides ):
  Beliefs, goals, intentions and obligations; TRAINS and TRIPS
  Basic reading: [45], [19], [4]; Further Reading: [7], [5,20]
  Students' questions

• Session 5 (17.5.) (presenter: Susanne Horst; slides; paper):
  Speech Acts for Dialogue Agents
  Basic reading: [35], [44]; Background reading: [29, Chapters 5 and 6]; Further reading: [43]
  Students' questions    What is an ontology?

• Session 6 (31.5.) (presenter: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová; slides):
  Dialogue Act Taxonomies and Annotation
  Basic reading: either read one/two paper(s) below in detail, or just browse through them all; the point is to get an idea what different kinds of dialogues people have annotated, how their annotation schemes compare, and how one checks whether the annotations are reliable.
  • Map Task corpus and dialogue acts [23], [9]
  • Verbmobil corpus and dialogue acts [1]
  • DAMSL [13], [2]
  • SWBD-DAMSL [41], [24]
  • DRI [46]
  
  Students' questions

• Session 7 UNUSUAL DAY & TIME & PLACE: Monday (3.6.) 16-18, Konferenzraum des Fernstudiums (Untergeschoss) (presenter: Hagen Böhm; slides; paper):
  Finite State Dialogue Models, Spoken Dialogue System Toolkits
  Basic reading: [33]; More details can be found in [48]
  Students' questions

• Session 8 (7.6.) (presenter: Joachim Walter; slides):
  Information-State Dialogue Modelling, TRINDI-Kit
  Basic reading: [28]; Background reading: [21]
  Students' questions

• Session 9 (14.6.) (presenter: Michael Goetze; slides; paper):
  Information-State Dialogue Modelling in Several Versions
  Basic reading: [42], [32], [26], [27], [17]; Background reading: [34]
  Students' questions

• Session 10 (21.6.) (presenter: Harald Lochert; slides):
  Dialogue and Task Initiative
  Basic reading: [11], [40]; Further reading [10], [16]
  Students' questions

• Session 12 (28.6.) (presenter: Kepa Rodriguez; slides; paper):
  Tutorial Dialogue
  Basic reading: [38], [14], [15], [47]
  Students' questions

• Session 11 (5.7.) (presenter: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová; slides):
  Negotiative Dialogue
  Basic reading: [12], [39], [18]
  Students' questions

• Session 13 (tbd) (presenter: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová):
  Summary and Final Discussion Reading: tbd

Last modified: Thu Oct 17 16:07:15 CEST 2002