ISCL Hauptseminar (Summer semester 2019, Meurers)
Dialogue Systems
Abstract:
With personal assistants such as Siri and Cortana, smart home applications such as the Echo
Dot, and in-car dialogue systems – applications supporting conversations between human and
computer are widely used in real-life technology. In this seminar, we discuss the components of
such dialogue systems from speech recognition via natural language understanding and
generation to dialogue management.
Instructor: Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers
- Office: Room 1.28, Blochbau (Wilhelmstr. 19)
- Email: dm@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de
- Office hours: Tuesdays 14:00–16:00 (please arrange slot by email beforehand)
Course meets: 4 SWS
- Tuesdays 16 – 19, HS 001 Oberschulamt (OSA, Keplerstr. 2) Attention: room change!
- Thursdays 10 – 12, SfS 0.02
Credit Points:
- Core Computatonal Linguistics Hauptseminar with 6 or, with term paper, 9 CP.
Online syllabus: http://purl.org/dm/19/ss/hs
Moodle page: https://moodle.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de/course/view.php?id=280
Please enroll in this course by logging into this moodle course with your ordinary ZDV
university login.
Nature of course and our expectations: This is an overview-oriented Hauptseminar, in
which we jointly introduce and explore the topic, perspectives and approaches. You are expected
to
- regularly and actively participate in class, read the papers assigned by any of the
presenters and post a meaningful question on Moodle to the “Discussion Forum” on
each reading at the latest on the day before it is discussed in class.
- explore and present a topic:
- select one of the sub-topics by the April 26
- thoroughly research the topic, mainly based on the mentioned reference
- prepare the presentation with slides, send them to me by email and discuss
them with me in a half hour slot during my office hour at least a week before
the presentation
- start a new Moodle thread on the “Discussion Forum” specifying what every
course participant should read to prepare for your presentation a week before
your presentation
- present and discuss the topic in class
- if you pursue the 9 CP option, work out a project term paper
- by July 14 select a topic and submit a one-page abstract (and a revised version
by July 24, 2018)
- by October 21, 2018, i.e. by the beginning of the next semester email the term paper
in pdf format to the instructor.
- Note for Computational Linguistics students: The term paper must be
produced in LaTeX using the ACL conference format or the Computational
Linguistics journal format; BibTeX must be used for the bibliography.
Academic conduct and misconduct: Research is driven by discussion and free exchange
of ideas, motivations, and perspectives. So you are encouraged to work in groups, discuss, and
exchange ideas. At the same time, the foundation of the free exchange of ideas is
that everyone is open about where they obtained which information. Concretely, this
means you are expected to always make explicit when you’ve worked on something
as a team – and keep in mind that being part of a team always means sharing the
work.
For text you write, you always have to provide explicit references for any ideas or passages
you reuse from somewhere else. Note that this includes text “found” on the web,
where you should cite the url of the web site in case no more official publication is
available.
Class etiquette: Please do not read or work on materials for other classes in our seminar. All
portable electronic devices such as cell phones and laptops should be switched off for the entire
length of the flight, oops, class.
Topics
- Detmar Meurers: Introduction and Overview
- Survey on current approaches (Sessions 1.2 + 2.1)
- Generation component (Session 2.2 + 3)
- Discourse Structure (Session 4 + 5.1)
- Data sets (Session 5.2, 21.5., long session)
- Neural network/deep learning methods for dialogue systems (Sessions 5.3 +
6)
- Discourse understanding and related work (Sessions 7 + 8 + 9.1)
- Speech Recognition (Session 9.2 + 10.1)
- Evaluation (Sessions 10.2 + 11 + 12.1)
- Systems (Sessions 12.2 + 13 + 14 (long) + 15.1 )
- Tutorial Dialogue Systems (Sessions 15.2 + 16)
- Other related work:
- Wrap-Up and Term Paper Discussion (Session 17)
Scheduling
- 23.4.–2.5. Overview and Introduction [Detmar Meurers]
- 7.5. Session 1
- 9.5. Session 2
- 14.5. Session 3
- 16.5. Session 4
- 21.5. Session 5 (long session)
- 23.5. Session 6
- 28.5. Session 7
- 30.5. No class (Himmelfahrt / Ascension day)
- 4.6. Session 8
- 6.6. Session 9
- 11./13.6. No class (Pfingsten / Pentecost)
- 18.6. Class moved
- 20.6. No class (Fronleichnam / Corpus Christi)
- 25.6. Session 10
- 27.6. Session 11
- 2.7. Session 12
- 4.7. Session 13
- 9.7. Class moved
- 11.7. Class moved
- 16.7. Session 14 (long session)
- 18.7. Session 15
- 23.7. Session 16 (long session)
- 25.7. Session 17