Reading List for Conversational System (ConvSys^)
^Note that ConvSys is also referred to as Dialogue System in literature. We go for ConvSys for the consistency with the topic of Conversational Recommender System.
Surveys
- A Survey on Dialogue Systems: Recent Advances and New Frontiers. Hongshen Chen, Xiaorui Liu, Dawei Yin, Jiliang Tang SIGKDD ‘17 PDF@arXiv
Tutorials
- Spoken Dialogue Systems. Sarah Ita Levitan, Julia Hirschberg. Course material at Columbia University, CS6998. 2019. pptx@ColumbiaU
- Conversational Agents. Dan Jurafsky. Course material at Stanford Univeristy, CS 124/LINGUIST 180. 2020 Winter Slides@Stanford
- Open-Domain Neural Dialogue System. Yun-Nung Chen, Jianfeng Gao. Tutorial@IJCNLP ‘17. Slides@NTU
- Towards Conversational Artificial Intelligence. Minlie Huang. Tutorial@CAAI ‘18. Slides@THU
Schedule & Research Papers
| Topic | Presenter | Time |
|---|---|---|
| CS6101 Module Logistics | Prof Min-Yen Kan | Week 2 |
| Overview of Dialogue System? (TBD whether we keep this section) | TBD? | Week 2 |
| Introduction to Subtasks of Dialogue System [Slides To Come] [Scribing Notes To Come] | TBD, Xu Lin, Yuxi Xie | Week 2 |
| End2End Models for Dialogue System | TBD | Week 4 |
| Frontier Topics and Conclusion | TBD | Week 4 |
Following are the details:
Module Logistics (Week 2)
- CS6101 Module Logistics, by Prof Min-Yen Kan.
Overview of Dialogue System (Week 2)
- History of dialogue system and chatbots, and a brief intro to task-oriented dialogue system and non-task-oriented dialogue system, by TBD.
Introduction to Subtasks of Dialogue System (Week 2)
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU), by Prof Min.
- DCR-Net: A Deep Co-Interactive Relation Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification. Libo Qin, Wanxiang Che, Yangming Li, Minheng Ni, Ting Liu. AAAI ‘21 PDF@AAAI
- Dialogue Management, by Xu Lin.
- DialoGraph: Incorporating Interpretable Strategy-Graph Networks into Negotiation Dialogues. Rishabh Joshi, Vidhisha Balachandran, Shikhar Vashishth, Alan Black, Yulia Tsvetkov. ICLR ‘21 PDF@OpenReview
- Natural Language Generation (NLG), by Yuxi Xie.
- Don’t Say That! Making Inconsistent Dialogue Unlikely with Unlikelihood Training. Margaret Li, Stephen Roller, Ilia Kulikov, Sean Welleck, Y-Lan Boureau, Kyunghyun Cho, Jason Weston. ACL ‘20 PDF@aclweb
End2End Models for Dialogue System (Week 4)
- Seq2Seq Model for Dialogue System, by Xiong An Lee, Tongyao Zhu.
- Sequicity: Simplifying Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Single Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures. Wenqiang Lei, Xisen Jin, Min-Yen Kan, Zhaochun Ren, Xiangnan He, Dawei Yin. ACL ‘18. PDF@aclweb
Pretrained Language Model for Dialogue System, by Muhd Assyarul Ariffin Bin Omar, Axel Lau, Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap, Stephen Tan.
DialoGPT: Large-Scale Generative Pre-training for Conversational Response Generation. Yizhe Zhang, Siqi Sun, Michel Galley, Yen-Chun Chen, Chris Brockett, Xiang Gao, Jianfeng Gao, Jingjing Liu, Bill Dolan. Demo@ACL ‘20 PDF@aclweb
Probing Task-Oriented Dialogue Representation from Language Models. Chien-Sheng Wu, Caiming Xiong. EMNLP ‘20 PDF@aclweb
Frontier Topics and Conclusion (Week 4)
- Multi-round Dialogue System: Are existing dialogue systems really able to consider previous rounds of conversation?
- Implication Resolution: Are existing dialogue systems able to reveal hidden meaning beyond given texts?
- Conversational Recommendation as a special case of task-oriented dialogue system, by Yisong Miao.