89 - Dialog Systems, with Zhou Yu

In this episode, we invite Zhou Yu to give an overview of dialogue
systems. We discuss different types of dialogue systems
(task-oriented vs. non-task-oriented), the main building blocks and
how they relate to other research areas in NLP, how to transfer
models across domains, and the different ways used to evaluate
these systems. Zhou also shares her thoughts on exciting future
directions such as developing dialogue methods for non-cooperative
environments (e.g., to negotiate prices) and multimodal dialogue
systems (e.g., using video as well as audio/text). Zhou Yu's
homepage: http://zhouyu.cs.ucdavis.edu/