Schedule

Schedule is tentative. Check regularly for updates.

DateTopicReadingsAssignment
8/27What is a Dialogue System? 1
9/1What is a Dialogue System? 2Fernandez 2014Make an app on wit.ai
9/3Language as Action
9/8Evaluating Dialogue SystemsWalker et al. 1997Reading Assignment 1
9/15Speech ActsSearle 1989Reading Assignment 2
9/17Discourse Structure 1Grosz and Sidner 1986,
Briggs, Williams, and Scheutz 2017
9/22Discourse Structure 2Hobbs 1985,
Grosz, Joshi, and Weinstein 1995		Reading Assignment 3
9/24Models of Dialogue 1: TRINDILarsson and Traum 2000
9/29Models of Dialogue 2: KoSGinzburg 2016,
Łupkowski and Ginzburg 2017		Reading Assignment 4
10/1Models of Dialogue 3: SDRTLascarides and Asher 2007
10/6Models of Dialogue 4: Dialogue-AMR 1Banarescu et al. 2013,
Bonial et al. 2020
10/8Models of Dialogue 5: Dialogue-AMR 2
10/13Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue SystemsSingh et al. 2000,
Graßl 2019		Reading Assignment 5
10/15Markov Decision ProcessesSutton and Barto 2018 ch. 1, 3
10/20Temporal-Difference LearningSutton and Barto 2018 ch. 6
10/22Dialogue Generation 1Li et al. 2016,
Li et al. 2017
10/27Dialogue Generation 2Li, Kiseleva, and de Rijke 2019,
Arulkumaran et al. 2017		Reading Assignment 6
10/29Human-Robot Communication 1Thomaz, Hoffman, and Cakmak 2016 ch. 4, 6
11/5Human-Robot Communication 2Roque et al. 2020,
Gervits et al. 2020		Reading Assignment 7
11/10Situated Grounding in Dialogue 1Liu, Fang, and Chai 2012,
Chai et al. 2017,
Winograd schemas		Reading Assignment 8
11/12Situated Grounding in Dialogue 2
11/17Situated Grounding in Dialogue 3
11/19Simulation Semantics and HRI 1Rich and Sidner 1998,
Lochbaum 1998
12/1Simulation Semantics and HRI 2
12/3Simulation Semantics and HRI 3Pustejovsky and Krishnaswamy (on LATTE)Writing Assignments due 12/15