Managing Tutorial Dialogue

(followed by a technical demonstration session)

Johanna Moore
Human Communication Research Centre
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
Division of Informatics
University of Edinburgh


Claus Zinn (demonstration)
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
Division of Informatics
University of Edinburgh


*** PLEASE NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME ***

Monday, February 25, 15:15
Building 17, Seminar Room

In information-seeking and task-oriented dialogue, there is
evidence that mixed-initiative systems lead to improved user
satisfaction and performance. In the tutorial dialogue community,
there is a growing consensus that students must construct knowledge
for themselves to learn most effectively, and that computer-based
tutors should engage students in "socratic" dialogues, which encourage
students to do as much of the work as possible, while providing
enough guidance to keep them from becoming too frustrated or
confused. In this talk, we will investigate the relationship between
socratic dialogue and initiative. We present a corpus analysis of
human tutorial dialogues. We will then describe an architecture for
dialogue systems, inspired by the three-level architectures used in
robotics, that integrates deliberative planning with a dialogue move
engine.

This talk will be followed by a demonstration session by Claus Zinn
(starting around 17:00).

If you would like to meet with the speaker(s), please contact:

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova

There is a dinner planned with the speaker on February 25 in "Zum
Stiefel" (from 19:30). If you would like to join in, please let Ivana
know.

This seminar series is jointly organized by the Department of
Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the European Post-Graduate
College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems.

A current version of the program for this term can be found at:

http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/colloquium/