Unit name | Dialogue and Narrative |
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Unit code | COMSM0023 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Peter Flach |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology |
Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
This unit presents the theoretical foundations for interactions that are narratively structured, reflecting the human bias towards organising our experiences as (language, logical and visual) narratives. Understanding the narrative structure requires a deep understanding of Natural Language Processing (NLP) components going from low-level text mining and segmentation to discourse-level analysis and summarisation. The unit builds upon these to teach core concepts in dialogue management, argumentation theory, and computational modelling of narratives.
Upon successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
This unit will be made up of a combination of taught lectures, problem classes and unsupervised lab classes.
Coursework 50% which will involve implementing an interactive dialogue system using one of the presented interfaces (e.g., Alexa Skills). ILO 3&4
Written examination, 2 hours, testing ILO 1&2 (50%)
Selected literature, references and online material will be provided at the start of the unit.