Class |
Reading: Theory |
Reading: Practice |
Assignments
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IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS IS A BASELINE SYLLABUS - TOPICS & READINGS WILL BE ADJUSTED AS A FUNCTION OF COURSE PARTICIPANTS |
[1] September 22
Overview of
Theories and Technologies of Discourse and Dialogue
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First day of class |
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[2] September 29
General Structure of Discourse & Conversation |
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Brown & Yule (1983), Ch. 1
- [Allen (1995), Ch. 2
(outline of English syntax)]
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- Kehler (2000)
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Jurafsky & Martin (2000), Ch. 19
- [ Grosz, Pollack, et al 1989)
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[#2 ] |
[3] October 6
Reference & Coherence |
- Brown & Yule (1983),
Ch. 2 & 6
- Schiffrin (1994),
"Appendix 1 - Collecting Data"
- Schiffrin (1994),
"Appendix 2 - Transcription Conventions"
- Ochs (1979)
- [Fromkin & Rodman
(1983), Ch. 6] |
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Allen (1995), Ch. 14 (local discourse context and reference)
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Dale & Reiter (1995)
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[#1 ] |
[4]October 13
Turn-taking, Initializing and Breaking out of Conversation
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- Duncan (1974)
- Goodwin (1981, pp. 55-93)
- Kendon (1992)
- Schegloff & Sacks (1973)
- [Levinson (1983), 6.1-6.2 ]
- [Bavelas, et al (1995)]
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- Pelachaud & Poggi (2000)
- Cassell & Vilhj·lmsson (1999)
- [ Cassell, et al. (1999) ]
- [ Nagao & Takeuchi
(1994)
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[5] October 20
Information Structure
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- Prince (1992)
- Chafe (1994), Ch. 13
- Korbayov· & Steedman (2003)
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Steedman (2003) | PDF]
- [Engdahl & Vallduvi (1994) | PDF]
- [Prince (1981)]
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DeCarlo et al. (2003)
- Hiyakumoto et al. (1997)
- McKeown (1983)
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[#3 ]
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[6]October 27
Paralinguistic Phenomena in Discourse (Gesture & Intonation) |
- Cassell (2000)
- Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg (1990)
(sections 1, 2 and 3)
- Chovil (1991)
- Buck (1991)
- Chovil & Fridlund (1991)
- [McNeill (1992), Ch. 1 & 2] |
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Prevost (1996)
- Cassell, et al. (2001a)
- Cassell, et al.
(2001b)
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[7] November 3 Developmental & Educational Discourse |
- Bokus (1992)
- Orsolini &
Pontecorvo (1992)
- Snow (1983)
- Gee (1989)
- [Gee & Green (1998)]
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- Robertson & Good (2003)
- Wang & Cassell (2003)
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[8] November 10
Intention & Purpose |
- Levinson (1983), Ch 5. (speech acts)
- Grice (1989), Ch. 2
- [ Stone (2004a)]
- [ Stone (2004b) ]
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- Grosz & Sidner (1986)
- Rich & Sidner (1998)
- Carletta, et al. (1997)
-[Grosz & Sidner (1990)]
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[9] November 17
Grounding |
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Clark &Schaefer (1989)
- Clark & Brennan (1991)
- Walker (1992)
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- Matheson, Poesio & Traum (2000)
- Traum & Allen (1994)
- Dillenbourg, et al. (1996)
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[10] November 24.
Class rescheduled for Thanksgiving - Offsite meeting
on Language, Gesture & Spatial Cognition TBA
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- Talmy (1982) (Screen Readable only)
- Tversky & Lee (1998)
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- Kopp, Tepper & Cassell (2004)
- Pineda, L. (2003)
- [Towns et al. (1998) ]
- [ Forbus et al. (2003) |
[#4 ]
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[11]December 1
Evaluating Language-Oriented Interactive Technologies
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- Walker et al. (1997)
- Dahlbäck et al. (1993)
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- Oviatt (1995)
- Nass, et al. (2000)
- Carenini & Moore (2001)
- Whittaker, Walker & Moore. (2002)
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[12] December 8
Final Projects
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Project Presentations |
[#5] |