| 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 |