Theories and Technologies for Discourse and Dialogue
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Course: Comm.Studies 525-20
Term: Fall 2004 Credit: 3
When: W 2:00 - 4:50 PM
Where: Searle 2-115
Professor Justine Cassell
TA: Paul Tepper
{justine,ptepper}@northwestern.edu

 

Class Reading: Theory Reading: Practice Assignments
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

First day of class

[2] September 29
General Structure of Discourse & Conversation
- Brown & Yule (1983), Ch. 1

- [Allen (1995), Ch. 2 (outline of English syntax)]

- Kehler (2000)
- Jurafsky & Martin (2000), Ch. 19

- [ Grosz, Pollack, et al 1989) ]

[#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]
- Allen (1995), Ch. 14 (local discourse context and reference)
- Dale & Reiter (1995)
[#1 ]

[4]October 13
Turn-taking, Initializing and Breaking out of Conversation


- Duncan (1974)
- Goodwin (1981, pp. 55-93)
- Kendon (1992)
- Schegloff & Sacks (1973)

- [Levinson (1983), 6.1-6.2 ]
- [Bavelas, et al (1995)]

- Pelachaud & Poggi (2000)
- Cassell & Vilhj·lmsson (1999)

- [ Cassell, et al. (1999) ]
- [ Nagao & Takeuchi (1994) ]


[5] October 20
Information Structure
- Prince (1992)
- Chafe (1994), Ch. 13
- Korbayov· & Steedman (2003)

- [ Steedman (2003) | PDF]
- [Engdahl & Vallduvi (1994) | PDF]
- [Prince (1981)]

- DeCarlo et al. (2003)
- Hiyakumoto et al. (1997)
- McKeown (1983)

[#3 ]
[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]
- Prevost (1996)
- Cassell, et al. (2001a)
- Cassell, et al. (2001b)

[7] November 3
Developmental & Educational Discourse
- Bokus (1992)
- Orsolini & Pontecorvo (1992)
- Snow (1983)
- Gee (1989)

- [Gee & Green (1998)]
- Robertson & Good (2003)
- Wang & Cassell (2003)
 
[8] November 10
Intention & Purpose
- Levinson (1983), Ch 5. (speech acts)
- Grice (1989), Ch. 2

- [ Stone (2004a)]
- [ Stone (2004b) ]
- Grosz & Sidner (1986)
- Rich & Sidner (1998)
- Carletta, et al. (1997)

-[Grosz & Sidner (1990)]

[9] November 17
Grounding
- Clark &Schaefer (1989)
- Clark & Brennan (1991)
- Walker (1992)
- Matheson, Poesio & Traum (2000)
- Traum & Allen (1994)
- Dillenbourg, et al. (1996)

[10] November 24.
Class rescheduled for Thanksgiving - Offsite meeting on Language, Gesture & Spatial Cognition TBA
- Talmy (1982) (Screen Readable only)
- Tversky & Lee (1998)

- Kopp, Tepper & Cassell (2004)
- Pineda, L. (2003)

- [Towns et al. (1998) ]
- [ Forbus et al. (2003)
[#4 ]

[11]December 1

Evaluating Language-Oriented Interactive Technologies

- Walker et al. (1997)
- Dahlbäck et al. (1993)
- Oviatt (1995)
- Nass, et al. (2000)
- Carenini & Moore (2001)
- Whittaker, Walker & Moore. (2002)
 
[12] December 8
Final Projects
Project Presentations [#5]