Lecture 18 October (Tuesday, in Sed):
Chatbot models, NLU and ASR
Presentation : PDF | ODP
Recordings: sorry, the room microphone did not work
Mandatory reading
Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed. (edition of Jan. 2022)
- Ch. 24, "Dialogue systems and chatbots"
- Sections 24.2 & 24.3
- Ch. 25, "Phonetics"
- Sections 25.1-25.5 (excluding the details not discussed in class)
- Chap 26, "Speech Recognition and ASR"
- Sections 26.1 and 26.5 (excluding the part on statistical significance)
Lab session October 20 (Thursday, in Smalltalk):
- 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.
- Find 4-5 disfluencies in the dialogue and analyse them according to Shriberg's model.
- Introduction to NumPy (loosely based on this tutorial)
Lab session October 25:
The lab session will cover the following exercises (extracted from previous exam questions).