Topics in Human Computer Interaction - Einzelansicht

This lecture starts on July 22!

This unit will focus on the following topics pertaining to interactions between people and computers:

• Dialogue systems -- theory of dialogue systems, and practical experience in constructing simple dialogue systems.
• Recommender systems -- classical methods for generating recommendations, e.g., as done by Amazon, Netflix, etc.
• Spoken language interpretation (if time permits) -- a crucial component of spoken dialogue systems.

• Kristiina Jokinen and Michael McTear (2010) -- Spoken Dialogue Systems (available on line).
• Robin Burke (2002) -- Hybrid Recommender Systems, User Modeling and User-adapted Interaction 12(4), 331-370.
• Zukerman et al. (2015) -- Employing Distance-based Semantics to Interpret Spoken Referring Expressions, Computer Speech and Language, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2015.01.002.

Some programming, basic knowledge of probability theory.