| Event | Date | Description | Course Material | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 02/21/2017 | Introduction Modular Dialogue System |
Slides: [Course Logistics] [Modular Dialogue System] | |
| Special | 02/28/2017 | Break | ||
| Milestone | 03/03/2017 | Milestone 0 Due | ||
| Special | 03/07/2017 | Break | ||
| Special | 03/14/2017 | Break | ||
| Lecture | 03/21/2017 | Ontology/Database and Language Understanding | Suggested Readings: 1. [LSTM for Utterance Classification] 2. [RNN for Slot Filling] 3. [Joint Frame Semantic Parsing] Slides: [Ontology] [Language Understanding] |
|
| Lecture | 03/28/2017 | Dialogue State Tracking | Slides: [Dialogue State Tracking] | |
| Special | 04/04/2017 | Break | ||
| Milestone | 04/08/2017 | Milestone 1 Due | Slides: [Milestone 1] | |
| Lecture | 04/11/2017 | Dialogue Policy Optimization 1 / User Simulation | Suggested Readings: 1. [User Simulator] Slides: [Policy Optimization 1] [User Simulation] |
|
| Guest Lecture | 04/18/2017 | Automatic Speech Recognition Guest Lecture by Prof. Hung-Yi Lee |
Slides: [] | |
| Lecture | 04/25/2017 | Dialogue Policy Optimization 2 | Suggested Readings: 1. [DQN Based Dialogue Agent] 2. [RL Based Dialogue Agent] 3. [Policy Gradient Based Dialogue Agent] Slides: [Policy Optimization 2] |
|
| Lecture | 05/02/2017 | Natural Language Generation
Microsoft API Tutorial by Eric |
Suggested Readings: 1. [Semantically-Conditioned LSTM-Based NLG] 2. [Neural Conversational Model] Slides: [Natural Language Generation] [Course Schedule] |
|
| Milestone | 05/06/2017 | Milestone 2 Due | Slides: [Milestone 2] | |
| Special | 05/09/2017 | TA Discussion | ||
| Presentation | 05/16/2017 | Progress Presentation & Demonstration | ||
| Lecture | 05/23/2017 | Natural Language Generation Evaluation |
Slides: [Natural Language Generation] [Evaluation] | |
| Special | 05/30/2017 | Break | ||
| Milestone | 06/03/2017 | Milestone 3 Due (21:00) | Slides: [Milestone 3] | |
| Lecture | 06/06/2017 | Multimodality, Robustness & Flexibility Guest Talk by NVIDIA |
Slides: [Multimodality] [System Improvement] [NVIDIA Talk] | |
| Lecture | 06/13/2017 | Recent Trends & Final Discussion | Suggested Readings: 1. [End-to-End Joint NLU and DM] 2. [Multi-Turn Language Understanding] 3. [K-SAN: Knowledge-Guided Structural Attention Network] 4. [MUSE: Modularizaing Unsupervised Sense Embedding] 5. [App Behavior Pattern for LU] 6. [LU Impact Analysis] Slides: [Joint NLU+DM] [Multi-Turn NLU] [Contextual NLU+DM] |
|
| Presentation | 06/20/2017 | Final Poster Presentation | Slides: [Poster Exhibition Tips] [poster template] |