Week 10

Lecture 10: October 19

slides: ODP | PDF (screen) | PDF (print)

Full recording of the lecture (on Zoom).

Mandatory reading:

Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed. (edition of Oct. 2019)

• Ch. 26, "Dialogue systems and chatbots"
  • Sections 26.3-26.6

Section 24.6 from the Dialogue chapter of 2nd edition of Jurafsky & Martin (on MDPs).

Optional reading:

- "Probabilistic models of dialogue" chapter from my own PhD thesis.

- Gao, J., Galley, M., & Li, L. (2018). Neural Approaches to Conversational AI. arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08267.

Exercise session 9: October 20

(full recording)

- The Python data science stack: Numpy, Pandas, Keras, etc.

- Help with obligatory assignment 3.