Workshop on Conversational AI (TH Augsburg, WS 2023/24)
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The workshop offers an immersive learning experience centered on Conversational AI, guiding participants through the process of developing their own chatbot and encouraging them to reflect on the issues related to human-machine interaction that arise when developing chatbots.
Participants
- Students of MA Interactive Media Systems and European Project Semester (max 15)
- Language: English
- Prerequisite: interest in language-based human-machine interaction
- Bring your own laptop
Schedule
| Day 1 (04/12/23) | Day 2 (05/12/23) | Day 3 (08/12/23) | ||
| Morning | (09:00 - 10:30) | Warm up & Organisation | Recap | Group Presentations: Presentation of Results, Lessons Learned |
| (10:50 - 12:20) | Human communication vs. Conversational AI | Introduction to the Allinga Dialogue Editor | Evaluation of ConvAI Systems, Multimodality | |
| Afternoon | (13:10 - 14:40) | Introduction to Dialogue Systems | Practice Session with Stephanie Hofmann (Fraunhofer IIS) | Data- and User-centered Conversational AI |
| (15:00 - 16:30) | Basics of Conversational Design | Practice Session with Stephanie Hofmann (Fraunhofer IIS) | Retrospective |
Alessandra Zarcone
Professor of Language Technologies and Cognitive Assistants
Computational linguist with a background in NLP and in psycholinguistics, working on AI, NLP and human-machine interaction.