Theories and Technologies for Discourse and Dialogue
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Course: EECS 431-20, Comm Studies 525-23
Term: Fall 2009 Credits: 3
When: Wed 2:00 - 4:50 PM
Where:Frances Searle Building 2-370
Justine's Office Hours: Fridays 2-3:30pm, Ford 3.330 (First come first served)
Zeina's Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-3pm, Ford 2.227 (Please email if attending)

Professor Justine Cassell
TA: Zeina Atrash
justine@northwestern.edu
zeina@u.northwestern.edu

There will be tutorials and TA sessions at various points during the quarter, to be announced.

 

 

 

Class Reading: Theory Reading: Practice Assignments
IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS IS A DRAFT SYLLABUS - TOPICS & READINGS WILL BE ADJUSTED AS A FUNCTION OF COURSE PARTICIPANTS

[1] September 23
Overview of
Theories and Technologies of Discourse and Dialogue

 First day of class

[2] October 5
General Structure of Discourse & Conversation

NOTE: CLASS HELD 4-7PM ON MON. OCT. 5

- Brown & Yule (1983), Ch. 1
- Bloomer, Griffiths, Merrison (2005), ch 2

For the assignment:
- Schiffrin (1994), "Appendix 1 - Collecting Data"
- Schiffrin (1994), "Appendix 2 - Transcription Conventions"

- Ochs (1979) (optional)

- Cole et al. (eds), 1996) all of the (very short) Chapter 6, which is found here .

- Jurafsky & Martin, 2nd ed (2008), Ch. 24 Read Sections 1 and 2 (in Blackboard).

- Grosz, Pollack, et al 1989) (optional)

#1 (due Mon. Oct 5 in class)

PRESENTERS:
Laura Clark
[3] October 7
Nonverbal Behavior in Discourse & Conversation

- Cassell (2000)
- Chovil (1991)
- Kendon (1995)

- Goodwin (2003)

- Cassell et al (2001)
- Nakano et al (2003)
- Stone, et al



- Stone (2009)
- Stone & Oh (2008)

#2

PRESENTERS:
Justin Wear & Denise Katz & Dean Lazar

[4] October 14
 Coding

- Carletta, J., Isard, A., Isard, S. D., Kowtko, J. C., Doherty-Sneddon, G., & Anderson, A. H. (1996). HCRC Dialogue structure coding manual.

- Harper notes on dialogue structure

- Jurafsky & Martin, 2nd ed (2008), Ch. 24 . Read Section 5

- Core, M. G., & Allen, J. (1997). Coding dialogs with the DAMSL annotation scheme.

#3

PRESENTERS:
Fahd Shaikh
& Justine Cassell
[5] October 21
Rapport and Politeness

- Longscope
- Tickle-Degnen & Rosenthal
- Cassell, Gill & Tepper (2007)

- Planalp et al. (1993) (optional)

- Rehm & Andre (2005)
 - Walker & Cahn
- Gratch et al (2007)


PRESENTERS:
Fahd Shaikh
& Anne van Devender
[6] October 28
Discourse & Dialogue in Formal and Informal Learning

- Crowder (1993)
- Allen (2002)

optional:

- Mehan (1979)

- Horn (2009)
- Tartaro & Cassell (2008)

#4

PRESENTERS:
David Barbella &
Dia Hasegawa

 

[7] November 4
Turn-taking, Initializing and Breaking out of Conversation
- Duncan (1974)
- Goodwin (1981, pp. 55-93) (also see here
- Kendon (1992)
- Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson (1974)

optional:
- Levinson (1983), 6.1-6.2
- Bavelas, et al (1995)

- Poggi & Pelachaud (2000)
- Cassell & Vilhjįlmsson (1999)

optional:
- Cassell, et al. (1999)
- Nagao & Takeuchi (1994)

PRESENTERS:
Dean Lazar & Denise Katz

[8] November 11
Culture


- Bucholtz (1999)
- Eckert (2000)

optional:
- Eckert (2005)
- Cassell
- Ess & Sudweeks (2005)
- One of the papers linked here.
(Hermeking, or Barnett & Sung, or Callahan, or Wurtz, or Lee & Choi, or Hewling, or Brock)


#5

PRESENTERS:
Anne van Devender
& David Barbella
[9] November 18
Evaluating Language-Oriented Interactive Technologies
- Walker et al. (1997)
- Dahlbäck et al. (1993)

- Nass, et al. (2000)

- Jurafsky & Martin, 2nd ed (2008), Ch. 24 . Read Section 4
PRESENTERS:
Justin Wear & Laura Clark

November 25

no class

    
[10] December 2
Final Projects
Project Presentations s

#6

PRESENTERS:
Everybody !