Stefan Kopp and David Schlangen
- Area: LaCo
- Level: A
- Week: 2
- Time: 09:00 – 10:30
- Room: C2.01 C3.06
Abstract
Formal semantics and pragmatics, if it goes beyond single speech acts at all, typically starts from an idealised view of dialogue as the exchange of propositions, one coming after another. In reality, dialogue is a much more dynamic and rich activity: people ‘um’ and ‘ah’, finish each other’s utterances, laugh, and gesture, and they engage in dialogue not only (and often, not even predominantly) to exchange information, but to bond and enjoy themselves. For different, but converging reasons, technical systems also try to abstract away from this dynamic and multimodal nature of dialogue. In this course, we will look into the phenomenology of dialogue, and specifically into its nature as something that is co-constructed and improvised by its participants. We will use computational modelling to gain insights into these phenomena, and also into the perspectives for realising more natural interaction with technical systems.
Slides / Information
- ResponsiveAgents_ESSLLI16_Day1
- ResponsiveAgents_ESSLLI16_Day2
- ResponsiveAgents_ESSLLI16_Day3
If you need technical support getting the system to run on your machine, please contact Sören ( sklett AT techfak.uni-bielefeld.de ) to arrange for a time to meet. - SYSTEM: There is now a dedicated repository for the system that Sören Klett put together and which we used in the class ( Highly Responsive Agent Framework (HiRAF) ). A fully functional and bootable linux image with everything installed is available here.
