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Dialogue Engineering

LevelM2

DegreeNatural Language Processing

InstitutionIDMC, Université de Lorraine

LocationNancy, France

Date2025/2026

DescriptionThis course is an introduction to dialogue engineering. It contains theory on dialogue, dialogue systems, and dialogue resources, as well as practical sessions meant to highlight the complexity of dialogue and the challenges of dialogue engineering.

ContextI taught this course to second year Master students in Natural Language Processing at the IDMC, Université de Lorraine, France.

Lectures

Lecture 1: Introduction to dialogue (engineering)
Lecture 2: Dialogue systems
Lecture 3: Dialogue resources

Exercises

Session 1: Dialogue structure and dialogue distillation
Session 2: Finite state machine ChatBot
Session 3: Dialogue annotations