TECH858 Class Schedule

This page contains pointers to the overheads and readings for each class.

Date Topic [overheads as PDF] Readings Lab Session

Tuesday 5th March 2002 An Introduction to Dialog Systems No lab this week

Tuesday 12th March 2002 Speech Recognition and the Makings of Good Dialog
Susan Boyce [2000], Natural Spoken Dialogue Systems for Telephony Applications, Communications of the ACM, Volume 43, No. 12, pages 29-34 [92k PDF]. Note that you may only legally download this paper if you are a registered student at Macquarie University.

Spoken Language Understanding, Section 1.8 in the Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology.
Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 in Chapter 1 of the Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology.
Lab 1: The CSLU Toolkit

Tuesday 19th March 2002 Introducing VoiceXML

Peter Wyard, Alison Simons, Steve Appleby, Edward Kaneen, Sandra Williams and Keith Preston [1996] Spoken Language Systems: Beyond Prompt and Response. BT Technology Journal, January 1996. [453k PDF]

Michael McTear [1998] Modelling spoken dialogues with state transition diagrams: experiences with the CSLU toolkit. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-98), December 1998, Sydney, Australia, pages 1223-1226. [37k PDF]
Lab 2: Using VoiceXML

Tuesday 26th March 2002 Grammars and Mixed Initiative Dialogs

SpeechWorks' white paper on How May I Help You [398k PDF]

Laila Dybkjaer and Niels Ole Bernsen [2000] Usability Issues in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems. In the Special Issue on Best Practice in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Engineering, Natural Language Engineering, Volume 6, Parts 3/4, pages 243-272. [85k PDF]
Lab 3: The Voice Banking Application

Tuesday 16th April 2002 Handling Complex Dialog Phenomena Make sure you have read and understood the sample dialog specification. Lab 4: Extend the grammars in your Voice Banking Application

Tuesday 23rd April 2002 The Future of Dialog Systems Review all the course readings to see if there is anything you would like further explained in the class. Lab 5: Your last chance to raise any questions about VoiceXML face-to-face.

Last updated 22nd April 2002. Please send any comments on these pages to Robert Dale.

Date	Topic [overheads as PDF]	Readings	Lab Session
Tuesday 5th March 2002	An Introduction to Dialog Systems		No lab this week
Tuesday 12th March 2002	Speech Recognition and the Makings of Good Dialog	Susan Boyce [2000], Natural Spoken Dialogue Systems for Telephony Applications, Communications of the ACM, Volume 43, No. 12, pages 29-34 [92k PDF]. Note that you may only legally download this paper if you are a registered student at Macquarie University. Spoken Language Understanding, Section 1.8 in the Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology. Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 in Chapter 1 of the Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology.	Lab 1: The CSLU Toolkit
Tuesday 19th March 2002	Introducing VoiceXML	Peter Wyard, Alison Simons, Steve Appleby, Edward Kaneen, Sandra Williams and Keith Preston [1996] Spoken Language Systems: Beyond Prompt and Response. BT Technology Journal, January 1996. [453k PDF] Michael McTear [1998] Modelling spoken dialogues with state transition diagrams: experiences with the CSLU toolkit. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP-98), December 1998, Sydney, Australia, pages 1223-1226. [37k PDF]	Lab 2: Using VoiceXML
Tuesday 26th March 2002	Grammars and Mixed Initiative Dialogs	SpeechWorks' white paper on How May I Help You [398k PDF] Laila Dybkjaer and Niels Ole Bernsen [2000] Usability Issues in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems. In the Special Issue on Best Practice in Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Engineering, Natural Language Engineering, Volume 6, Parts 3/4, pages 243-272. [85k PDF]	Lab 3: The Voice Banking Application
Tuesday 16th April 2002	Handling Complex Dialog Phenomena	Make sure you have read and understood the sample dialog specification.	Lab 4: Extend the grammars in your Voice Banking Application
Tuesday 23rd April 2002	The Future of Dialog Systems	Review all the course readings to see if there is anything you would like further explained in the class.	Lab 5: Your last chance to raise any questions about VoiceXML face-to-face.