16.4.2007

Introduction: What is dialogue? What properties does it have? What kind of linguistic issues does it raise?

Materials:

• Allenby dialogue (pdf)
• Dialogue extracts (pdf)

23.4.2007

Organisation and Approaches to be Covered

Discussion, allocation of discussion themes, overview of McTear

30.4.2007

Getting Data: Dialogue Experiment

Here we show one of the ways in which we can start focusing our investigation of dialogue. Instructions will be given in class...

The dialogues recorded are now available here.

7.5.2007

Speech acts

 Reading:

Yan Hoang (2006)
Pragmatics (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)
Chapter "Speech acts" (paper copy)

Allen & Core (1997) (pdf)
Draft of DAMSL: Dialog Act Markup in Several Layers

14.5.2007

Ventola & Martin's Dynamic Exchange Structure

Reading:

Coulthard, M. & Brazil, D.C. (1981)
Exchange structure,
in Malcolm Coulthard & M. Montgomery, ed.,
'Studies in discourse analysis',
Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, pp. 82--106. (paper copy)

Berry, M.: (1981),Systemic linguistics and discourse analysis:
a multi-layered approach to exchange structure,
in Malcolm Coulthard & Michael Montgomery, ed.,
'Studies in Discourse Analysis', Routledge and Kegan Paul,
London, pp. 120--145. (paper copy)

Materials:

• Overheads provided for introduction to Berry (ppt)
• Dialogue extracts for analysis for next week (pdf)

21.5.2007

Finite-state transition models for dialogue

Reading:

extract from: McTear02.pdf (see above)

Sitter & Stein (1996)
Modeling Information-Seeking Dialogues:
The Conversational Roles (COR) Model
Review of Information Science, 1(1) on-line journal
http://www.inf-wiss.uni-konstanz.de/RIS/1996iss01_01/articles01/03.html

28.5.2007

Pfingstmontag

Reading: DAMSL additional overheads!

4.6.2007

Feature structures / Merkmalstruturen

Reading:

Peter Kolb (paper copy)

11.6.2007

Information-state approaches to Dialogue

Reading:

Copper & Larsson (1998) (CooperLarsson98.pdf)
Dialogue Moves and Information States

Traum & Larsson (2003) (TraumLarsson03.pdf)
The Information State Approach to Dialogue Management
In Smith & van Kuppevelt eds,
Current and New Directions in Discourse and Dialogue
Kluwer Academic Publishers

18.6.2007

Asher & Lascarides's Logics of Conversion

The papers for this week are to be read from two perspectives: first, picking out the details of the logic that the authors rely on, second, showing how they deal with dialog.

Reading (paper copies and links to pdf files):

Lascarides, A. & Asher, N. (1991) (pdf)
Discourse relations and defeasible knowledge
in 'Proceedings of the 29th. Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics', Association for Computational Linguistics, Berkeley, California, pp. 55--63.

Lascarides, A. & Oberlander, J. (1993) (pdf)
Temporal Connectives in a Discourse Context
in 'Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics', pp. 260--268.

Asher, N. & Lascarides, A. (1994) (pdf)
Intentions and Information in Discourse,
in '32nd. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics', Association for Computational Linguistics, Las Cruces, NM, pp. 34--41.

25.6.2007

Ventola & Martin's Dynamic Exchange Structure +
Discussion of the mini-projects / exercises

Reading:

Eija Ventola: The Logical Relations in Exchanges" (Chapter 3; paper copy)

2.7.2007

Presentations / Project Work

9.7.2007

Presentations / Project Work

16.7.2007

Presentations and Re-orientation