Lecture 12 (November 1): Dialogue management, system design and evaluation
Recording: here
Mandatory reading:
Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed.
- Ch. 24, "Dialogue systems and chatbots"
- Sections 24.3-24.6
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.
Lab session:
- Go through MDP question from 2020 exam
- Help with obligatory assignment 3