| 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 21
Overview of
Theories and Technologies of Discourse and Dialogue | First day of class |
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[2] September 28
General Structure of Discourse & Conversation | - Brown & Yule (1983), Ch. 1
For the assignment:
- Schiffrin (1994), "Appendix 1 - Collecting Data"
- Schiffrin (1994), "Appendix 2 - Transcription Conventions"
- Ochs (1979)
optional:
- Allen (1995), Ch. 2 (outline of English syntax) | - Kehler (2004) Sections 1 through 3.1 and Section 4 are required. I.e., Section 3.2 is optional.
- Jurafsky & Martin (2000), Ch. 19 Read Sections 19.1 through 19.4. (Note that this is not the version of the chapter that is in the book, but a newer, extended, and revised version.)
optional:
- Grosz, Pollack, et al 1989)
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[3] October 5
Intention & Purpose | - Levinson (1983), Ch 5. (speech acts)
- Grice (1989), Ch. 2
optional:
- Stone (2004a)
- Stone (2004b) | - Grosz & Sidner (1986)
- Jurafsky & Martin (2000), Ch. 19 Read Sections 19.5 till the end.
optional:
-Grosz & Sidner (1990)
- Rich & Sidner (1998)
- Carletta, et al. (1997)
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[4] October 12
Reference & Coherence | - Brown & Yule (1983), Ch. 2 & 6
optional:
- [Fromkin & Rodman (1983), Ch. 6
| - Allen (1995), Ch. 14 (local discourse context and reference)
- Dale & Reiter (1995) | #3 |
[5] October 19
Intonation & Information Structure
| - Prince (1992)
- Chafe (1994), Ch. 13
- Korbayov· & Steedman (2003)
optional:
- Steedman (2003) | PDF
- Engdahl & Vallduvi (1994) | PDF
- Prince (1981)
| - DeCarlo et al. (2004)
- Hiyakumoto et al. (1997)
- McKeown (1983)
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[6] October 26
Grounding | - Clark &Schaefer (1989)
- Clark & Brennan (1991)
- Walker (1992) | - Matheson, Poesio & Traum (2000)
- Traum & Allen (1994)
- Dillenbourg, et al. (1996) | #4 |
| [7] November 2
Turn-taking, Initializing and Breaking out of Conversation
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- Duncan (1974)
- Goodwin (1981, pp. 55-93)
- Kendon (1992)
- Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson (1974)
optional:
- Levinson (1983), 6.1-6.2
- Bavelas, et al (1995)
| - Poggi & Pelachaud (2000)
- Cassell & Vilhjálmsson (1999)
optional:
- Cassell, et al. (1999)
- Nagao & Takeuchi (1994)
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[8] November 9
Rapport | S. Planalp et al. (1993). | - Rehm & Andre, 2005.
- Bickmore, 2004. |
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[10] November 16
Developmental & Educational Discourse | - Mehan, 1979
optional:
- Gee & Green (1998)
- Snow (1983)
- Gee (1989)
| - Wang & Cassell (2003)
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November 23 no class
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| [10] November 30 Evaluating Language-Oriented Interactive Technologies
| - Walker et al. (1997)
- Dahlbäck et al. (1993)
| - Nass, et al. (2000) | #5 |
[12] December 7
Final Projects
| Project Presentations | #6 |
