Spoken Dialogue Systems Course (Ling 160)
I teach a Introductory Computational Linguistics course for linguistics
students focussing on Spoken Dialogue Systems. In the course students, who often
have had little or no programming experience build a spoken dialogue systems as
their course projects and give a public demonstration at the end of the course.
Since spoken dialogue systems are an interface technology, I arrange for
students to collaborate with industry or academic partners. In Spring 2008
the students worked with Professor Christopher Kitts from Santa Clara University
and his robotics students talking to robots, with QTech, working on student
oriented services that connected with the ReQall telephone based reminder
system, and with Paideia Computing on spoken dialogue interaction for virtual
worlds.