Week 8

Lecture 8: October 5

slides: ODP | PDF (screen) | PDF (print)

+ Full recording of the lecture.

Mandatory reading:

• Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing, 3. ed. (edition of Oct. 2019)
  • Ch. 26, "Dialogue systems and chatbots, Sections 26.1 & 26.2
• Garrod, S., & Pickering, M. J. (2007). Alignment in dialogue. The Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics, 443-451.

Optional reading:

- Chapter 2 of my PhD thesis (2014)

- Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T., & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(5), 675-691.

Exercise session 7: October 6

- Mandatory assignment 2 Q&A

- Exercise: Analyse the following dialogue (audio, transcript) and answer the following questions:

1. How are the dialogue turns structured, based on the observed linguistic cues?
2. What kind of speech acts are used through the dialogue, according to Searle's taxonomy?
3. What are the grounding signals and strategies used through the dialogue?
4. Can you find some examples of conversational implicatures?
5. List a few (2-3) deictic markers occurring in the dialogue.