University of Washington: Linguistics: LING 575 A (Discourse & Dialogue) Spring 2011: Syllabus

LING 575 A - Discourse & Dialogue Spring 2011
Syllabus

Days	Time (P.M.)	Classroom
Wednesdays	3:30-5:50	MGH 248

	Instructor
Name:	Gina-Anne Levow
Email:	levow@uw.edu
Office:	Padelford B-201
Office Hour:	F: 11:30am-12:30

Course Evaluation Link

Course description

Textbook

There is no required textbook for this course. However, you may find the following reference texts useful.

Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, 2nd edition, by Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin.
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language ProcessingChris Manning and Hinrich Schutze.

A number of published research articles will also provide background for the course. The course bibliography is here

Prerequisites:

One or more of: Ling 570, Ling 571, Ling 572
Stat 391 (Probability and Statistics for CS) or equivalent
Formal grammars, languages, and automata
Programming in one or more of Java, Python, C/C++, or Perl
Linux/Unix commands

Course Resources

Course Gradebook
GoPost Class Discussion Board
Drop Box
Adobe Connect Meeting Room

Grading

10-20%: Class presentations
70-80%: Term Paper/Project
10-20%: Class participation

Course Mechanics

Additional detailed information on grading, collaboration, incompletes, etc.

Tentative schedule, subject to change without notice.

Date	Topics	Readings	Assignment out	Slides	Adobe Connect Recording
Week 1: March 30	Intro to Discourse and Dialogue	Grosz et al, 1997	HW#1: Select Topic/3 papers Due 4/13: Noon	pptx pdfx	Recording Offline Recording
Week 2: April 6	Reference & Co-reference	Jurafsky & Martin, Chapter 21.4-21.8 Cardie and Ng, 2002 Cardie and Wagstaff, 1999 Ng, 2010		pptx pdf	Recording
Week 3: April 13	Project plan: literature survey Discourse Structure	Rhetorical Structure Theory: Intro Taboada, M. and W.C. Mann (2006), p. 1-19 Wolf and Gibson, 2005 DRT		pptx pdf	Recording Offline Recording
Week 4: April 20	Project updates Discourse Segmentation	Shriberg et al(2001)(speech) Hearst(1994)(text) Marcu(1999)(text, RST), Beeferman et al (1999)(text)	HW #2: Initial Presentations Presentations on 4/27; 5/4	pptx pdf	Recording Offline Recording
Week 5: April 27	Dialogue Interim Reports	Jurafsky & Martin, Chapter 24		pptx pdf	Recording Offline Recording
Week 6: May 4	Interim Reports Dialogue (cont'd)				Recording Offline Recording
Week 7: May 11	Dialogue Systems	McTear 2001, Sections 3 and 5 Walker et al (1990) Oviatt(1995) Walker et al. (1997)		pptx pdf	Recording Offline A Offline B
Week 8: May 18	Dialogue Management	Finite-State Frame-based system, Aust et al, 1995.	Final Projects and Presentations: Short Presentations: 6/1 Final Submissions: 6/9, 23:59	pptx pdf	Recording Offline Recording
Week 9: May 25	Turn-taking and Politeness	Goodwin (1981), pp. 55-93 Shriberg et al. (2001) Brown & Levinson (1978) Walker et al. (1996)		pptx pdf	Recording
Week 10: June 1	Final presentations

LING 575 A - Discourse & Dialogue Spring 2011 Syllabus