| LEC # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction (PDF) |
| 2 | Topic Segmentation: Agreement, Evaluation, Automatic Text Segmentation (PDF) |
| 3 | Topic Segmentation (cont.): Hierarchical Text Segmentation, Meeting Segmentation (PDF) |
| 4 | Cohesion and Local Coherence: Lexical Chains, Centering Theory; Applications to Automated Essay Scoring (PDF) |
| 5 | Automatic Reference Resolution (PDF) |
| 6 | Automatic Reference Resolution and Reference Generation (PDF) |
| 7 | Generation of Referring Expressions (PDF) |
| 8 | Domain-dependent Models of Text Structure (PDF) |
| 9 | Rhetorical Structure Theory (PDF) Guest Speaker: Florian Wolf |
| 10 | Discourse Structure in Text Summarization; Alignment (PDF) |
| 11 | Temporal Ordering in Discourse (PDF) |
| 12 | Prosody and Discourse Guest Speaker: Chao Wang |
| 13 | Intentions and the Structure of Discourse (PDF) |
| 14 | Studies of Dialogues; Taxonomy of Speech Acts (PDF) |
| 15 | Automatic Interpretation of Dialogue Acts (PDF) |
| 16 | Learning Dialogue Strategies via Reinforcement Learning (PDF) |
| 17 | MIT Dialogue Systems (PDF) (Courtesy of Stephanie Seneff. Used with permission.) |
| 18 | Dialogue Systems (PDF) |
| 19 | Plan Recognition (PDF) |
| 20 | Evaluation for Discourse Processing (PDF) |
| 21 | Discourse in Psycholinguistics (PDF) |
| 22 | Project Presentations |
| 23 | Project Presentations (cont.) |