Proseminar: Computational Pragmatics (Winter 2019/2020)

Time & Location: Mo 12:15 – 13:45 in C7.3 Seminarraum 1.12

Teacher: Dr Volha Petukhova

***ANNOUNCEMENTS***
none

Suitable for: Bachelor CoLi

Organisation:
We plan to hold the first introduction & planning meeting on the 21st of October where topics and related material (e.g. papers) will be discussed. After two weeks independent work each student (or group) will give a presentation on a selected topic (30 minutes + 10 minutes questions) followed by a practical hands-on exercise. At the end of the course, each student has to prepare a short report (about 10 pages) and hand it for grading.

Grading: 40% based on the talk, 20% based on discussion participation and assignments; 40% based on the report

  • Topics:
  • 1. Situating Computational Pragmatics (introduction)
  • 2. Language as Action in Context
    • dialogue interaction
    • segmentation
    • intentions
  • 3. Computational Models of Dialogue
    • dialogue acts
    • dialogue management
    • feedback and grounding
    • context modelling
    • models: FSA, BDI, cue-based; data-driven, statistical, sequence2sequence, etc.
  • 4. Relations in Dialogue and Discourse
  • 5. Resources
    • corpora with pragmatic information
    • annotation schemes and standards
    • software tools
  • 6. Machine Learning in Computational Pragmatics

Teaching material and selected papers:
tba

For any questions, please send an email to:
v.petukhova@lsv.uni-saarland.de
Use subject tag: [CP_19/20]