Section outline

  • May 22nd, Wednesday (10:30-12:30)

    Question answering

    • Machine reading based on attention: Stanford attentive reader
    • Bilinear product attention
    • Practical issues
    • Retrieval augmented generation
    • Research papers
    • Datasets and leaderboards
    • Answer sentence selection
    • Knowledge-based QA
    • Entity linking

    Dialogue

    • Human Conversation and turns
    • Dialogue and speech acts
    • Grounding
    • Dialogue structure, adjacency pairs, and sub-dialogue
    • Inference

    Chatbots

    • Rule-based systems
    • Corpus-based systems
    • Response by retrieval
    • Response by generation
    • Hybrid systems
    • Research papers

    Virtual assistants: frame-based

    • Frame-based dialogue systems
    • Slot/value pairs and question templates
    • Domain classification, intent determination, and slot filling

    References

    • Eisenstein, section 17.5.2
    • Jurafsky and Martin, chapter 14
    • Slides from the lecture
    • Jurafsky and Martin, chapter 15

    Resources