PhD in Computer Science

Conversational Interfaces

Conversational Interfaces

Academic year 2018/2019

Sommario del corso

• Results of learning outcomes
• Course delivery
• Learning assessment methods
• Program
• Suggested textbooks and readings
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Results of learning outcomes

At the end of the class the students will acquire the fundamental knowledge about the linguistic issues concerning the development of conversational interfaces. Moreover, the students will understand the main differences between th various architectures employed for realize conversational interfaces in industries.

Course delivery

Frontal Lessons (with slides)

Learning assessment methods

We will ask to develop a project on Conversationa Interfaces.

Program

This course will introduce to coversational Interfaces (CI), that are goal oriented dialogue systems and chat-bots.

In particular in the class we will briefly cover the state of art of the basic technologies (ASR, T2S, parsing, generation) and we will discuss the principal architetures adopted to build CI.

Syllabus:

1. history and SoA of CI, SR and T2S, Parsing and Generation for CI, study of some prototypical architectures (Alessandro Mazzei)

2. Pragmatics, speech acts and annotation schemata for Speech acts (Rossana Damiano)

3. NLG with formal semantics: a possible architecture (Invited Speaker).

4. CI at work: Invited Speaker from industry

Title: The Conversational Interface - Talking to Smart Devices
Authors: Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, David Griol
ISBN: 978-3-319-32965-9

Title: Natural Language Generation in Interactive Systems
Editors: Amanda Stent, Srinivas Bangalore
ISBN-13: 978-1107010024

Note

• Teaching materials
• Exams and finals
• Go to Moodle
• Visit the forums