Resources

Readings

• Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech by Gokhan Tur and Renato De Mori
• Speech and Language Processing by Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin
  • Chapter 29: Dialog Systems and Chatbots
  • Chapter 30: Advanced Dialog Systems
• Spoken Dialogue Systems by Kristiina Jokinen and Michael McTear, also avaliable at Amazon.

Other courses

• University of Washington LING 575: Spoken Dialog Systems by Gina-Anne Levow
• Standford University CS224S / LINGUIST285 - Spoken Language Processing by Andrew Maas
• University of Pennsylvania CIS 700 - Deep Learning for Automated Discourse by João Sedoc, Chris Callison-Burch and Lyle Ungar
• Cambridge University MISALT9 - Dialogue Systems by Milica Gašić
• Oregon Health & Science University CS550 Spoken Dialogue Systems by Peter Heeman
• Aleax Skills Training Courses

Chatbots

• ELIZA [wikipedia]
  • Python implementation
  • Javascript implementation
• Alice [wikipedia]
  • ALICE 2.0
  • AIML Samples

Softwares

• AllenNLP
• Stanford CoreNLP
• Alexa Github

Challenges

• Amazon Alexa Prize
• ConvAI
• Loebner Prize

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