The schedule for the class will evolve based on interests of the students. I will extend details of reading assignments as we go. Follow the topic links or select from the Announcements for details on the reading and access to the papers.
| Date | Topic | Readings | |
| 8/30 | Discourse and Discourse structure | Webber, Bonnie, and Aravind Joshi. “Discourse Structure and Computation: Past, Present and Future.” | |
| 9/4 | Labor Day No class | ||
| 9/6 | Dialog Acts | Stolcke, Andreas et al. “Dialogue Act Modeling for Automatic Tagging and Recognition of Conversational Speech.”; Bunt, Harry. “Dimensions in Dialogue Act Annotation.” | |
| 9/11 | Dialog act annotation: Bunt, Multidimensional dialog acts | ||
| 9/13 | Dialog acts in multi-party dialogs (meetings) | ||
| 9/18 | Intention and Attention | ||
| 9/20 | topic | ||
| 9/25 | topic | ||
| 9/27 | topic | ||
| 10/2 | topic | ||
| 10/4 | topic | ||
| 10/9 | topic | ||
| 10/11 | No class, Brandeis Thursday | ||
| 10/16 | topic | ||
| 10/18 | topic | ||
| 10/23 | Final presentations |