Week 9

Lecture 10 (October 18): Dialogue systems and chatbots

Presentation: PDF | ODP

Recording: here

Mandatory reading:

• Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed. (edition of Sept. 2021)
  • Ch. 24, "Dialogue systems and chatbots, Sections 24.1 & 24.2
• Garrod, S., & Pickering, M. J. (2007). Alignment in dialogue. The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics, 443-451.

Optional reading:

- Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T., & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(5), 675-691.

Lab session: October 21

1. Exercise: Analyse the following dialogue (audio, transcript) and answer the following questions:
   • How are the dialogue turns structured, based on the observed linguistic cues?
   • What kind of speech acts are used through the dialogue, according to Searle's taxonomy?
   • What are the grounding signals and strategies used through the dialogue?
   • Can you find some examples of conversational implicatures?
   • List a few (2-3) deictic markers occurring in the dialogue.
2. Introduction to NumPy (loosely based on this tutorial)