Computational Models of Discourse

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2	Topic Segmentation: Agreement, Evaluation, Automatic Text Segmentation
3	Topic Segmentation (cont.): Hierarchical Text Segmentation, Meeting Segmentation
4	Cohesion and Local Coherence: Lexical Chains, Centering Theory; Applications to Automated Essay Scoring
5	Automatic Reference Resolution
6	Automatic Reference Resolution and Reference Generation
7	Generation of Referring Expressions
8	Domain-dependent Models of Text Structure
9	Rhetorical Structure Theory Guest Speaker: Florian Wolf	First part of the project due
10	Discourse Structure in Text Summarization; Alignment
11	Temporal Ordering in Discourse
12	Prosody and Discourse Guest Speaker: Chao Wang
13	Intentions and the Structure of Discourse
14	Studies of Dialogues; Taxonomy of Speech Acts
15	Automatic Interpretation of Dialogue Acts
16	Learning Dialogue Strategies via Reinforcement Learning
17	MIT Dialogue Systems	Second part of the project due
18	Dialogue Systems
19	Plan Recognition
20	Evaluation for Discourse Processing
21	Discourse in Psycholinguistics
22	TBA	Last part of the project due
23-24	Project Presentations