Computer dialogue systems and user interface

  1. 2023-10-03: Introduction to dialogue systems
  2. 2023-10-10: Introduction to dialogue systems, cont.
  3. 2023-10-17: Introduction to dialogue systems, cont.
  4. 2023-10-24: Introduction to dialogue systems, cont.

    Let's watch! Successes, Challenges and Opportunities for Speech Technology in Conversational Agents by Shehzad Mevawalla, Amazon Alexa, a keynote speech at Interspeech 2020

  5. 2023-10-31: Dialogue analysis - convergence of speakers in dialogue

    Download the dialog and annotate dialogue acts.

    Guidelines for using ISO standard 24617-2 by Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, 2019

  6. 2023-11-07: Dialogue scenario creation for student's dialogue system

    Recording a dialogue on ZOOM on two seperate channels:
    ZOOM -> Profil użytkownika (w prawym górnym rogu) -> Ustawienia
    Nagranie -> Zaznacz okienko: Nagrywaj osobny plik audio każdego uczestnika

    Apps for drawing diagrams: OpenOffice Draw, DrawIO: app.diagrams.net, Konipio Club: kinopio.club

  7. 2023-11-14: Annotation of student's dialogues

    Analyse your dialogue on dialogue act level, calculate statistics => export TextGrid file format to CSV format, textgrid2csv converter

  8. 2023-11-16: Trip to Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center
  9. 2023-11-21: Seminarium Dariah.lab "Sezon na humanistykę cyfrową"
  10. 2023-11-28: Creation of finite-state automaton
    1. Build a Finate-State Transducer of your dialogue => NDFST interpreter
    2. Write a report of your work

    INPUT: s s u s u s u s u

    # METADATA: Demo FST file for NDFST interpreter.
    # The interpreter features generous use of white space, error messages for FST
    # configuration file input, optional prettyprinted trace for fst run.
    
    # Initial state:
    initial = q0
    # Set of terminal states:
    terminal = q5
    # Transition quadruples :
    fst =
       q0, s, self_intro, q1;
       q1, s, info_seek, q2;
       q2, u, info_provide, q1;
       q2, u, info_provide, q3;
       q3, s, ferewall, q4;
       q4, u, ferewall, q5
    

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    s - system
    u - user
    INPUT: s s u s u u s u s u

    # METADATA: Demo FST file for NDFST interpreter.
    # The interpreter features generous use of white space, error messages for FST
    # configuration file input, optional prettyprinted trace for fst run.
    
    # Initial state:
    initial = q0
    # Set of terminal states:
    terminal = q3, q5
    # Transition quadruples :
    fst =
       q0, s, self_intro, q1;
       q1, s, info_seek, q2;
       q2, u, info_provide, q1;
       q2, u, info_provide, q2;
       q2, u, info_provide, q3;
       q3, s, ferewall, q4;
       q4, u, ferewall, q5
    
  11. 2023-12-05: Demo dialogue system creation
    Download demo dialogue system.
  12. 2023-12-12: Demo dialogue system creation - students' own work
  13. 2023-12-19: Xmas party and charity collection at Institute of Applied Linguistics
  14. 2024-01-09: Demo dialogue system creation - students' own work
  15. 2024-01-16: Final test
  16. 2024-01-23: Students' presentations of their dialogue systems and final reports