FI:PA156 Dialogue Systems - Course Information
PA156 Dialogue Systems
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Luděk Bártek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Aleš Horák, Ph.D.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Ivan Kopeček, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Mon 16:00–17:50 C525
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 19 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Basic aspects of the current theory of dialogue systems, their implementations and applications are presented in the course. The basic goal is to present an overview of the state of the art in the field and to outline the future perspective.
- Syllabus
- History of the human-computer communication (Elisa, expert systems, virtual reality)
- Basic technologies of the dialogue systems (principles of the speech synthesis and recognition, multi-modal interface)
- Principles of the natural language analysis (formal models, Chomsky approach, other alternatives, statistical approach, semantic and pragmatic analysis)
- Structure and models of dialogue, basic types of dialogues (Conversational analysis, principles and characteristics of the cooperative and non-cooperative dialogue)
- Dialogue strategies (Types of dialogue strategies, relations with the game theory)
- Syntax, semantics and pragmatics of dialogue (Formal description of dialogue and dialogue strategies, methods of semantics analysis, pragmatic aspects)
- Modelling and processing emotions (Emotions meaning for dialogue strategies, detection and analysis of emotions)
- Sentence interpretation and generation (Ambiguities, context)
- Structure of dialogue systems (basic modules of dialogue systems and their function)
- Dialogue languages, W3C Voice Browser Activity Standards (VoiceXML, SRGS, SISR, SSML, etc., dialogue notation)
- User modelling (UM and relations to dialogue systems)
- Simulation a testing dialogue system (methods of simulation and testing, the method WOZ)
- Implementations a applications, future of dialogue systems
- Literature
- Kopeček, Ivan. Dialogové systémy. Studijní podklady pro distanční studium,
- MCTEAR, Michael. Spoken dialogue technology : toward the conversational user interface. Edited by T. V. Raman. New York: Springer, 2004, xii, 432. ISBN 1852336722. info
- PSUTKA, Josef. Komunikace s počítačem mluvenou řečí. Praha: Academia, 1995, 287 s. ISBN 8020002030. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures. Presentation of theoretical frameworks and basic applications. Discussions.
- Assessment methods
- The examination consist of a written test and an oral part that is typically devoted to the explanation of the unclear points of the written test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kopecek/stud.htm
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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