LING 7800-005
Computational Extraction of Social and Interactional Meaning from Speech

Linguistic Institute 2011

COURSE INFORMATION
Instructors
Dan Jurafsky, jurafsky@stanford.edu
Mari Ostendorf, mo at ee dot washington dot edu
Where & When Tuesday and Fridays 3:30-5:15, Koelbel 300 (the Business School building)
Office Hours Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 IBS Cubicle 8
Discussion Forum http://www.piazza.com/class#7800005
TA Jinho Choi (jdchoi77@gmail.com), Hellems B2, Monday and Friday 11-12
Description Computational methods for extracting social and conversational meaning, mainly from conversational speech but also from text. Topics will include automatic determination of emotions (angry, annoyed, happy), personality (extrovert, introvert), medical states (depression, intoxication), style (flirtatious, polite, funny), register (formality, audience), intention (deception), positioning, as well as the role of accommodation. Focus on extraction of cues from speech and text, with special attention to prosodic, acoustic, and repair/disfluency structure. Prerequisite: Familiarity with Praat, basic ability in programming (at least one or two college-level courses) using Perl, Python, Java, or Matlab
Required Work Readings: To be read before the class period in which they will be discussed.
Homeworks (80%): 4 homeworks. Homework is due at 9:30am on the day it is due. (Homework Collaboration Policy: You may talk to anybody you want about the assignments and bounce ideas off each other. But you must write the actual homeworks and programs yourself)
Class Participation (20%)



SCHEDULE
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Date
HW
Lec

Topic and Readings

1
July 8
Lec 1 slides

Sentiment Lexicons and Sentiment Classification

Optional extra reading:
2
July 12
HW 1 due Lec 2 slides

Prosody, Emotion, and Mood

Optional extra reading for those interested in further research:
3
July 15
Lec 3 slides

Personality and Interpersonal Stance

Optional extra reading:
4
July 19
HW 2 due Lec 4 slides

Accommodation

Optional extra reading:

5
July 22
Lec 5 slides

Register and Genre

Optional extra reading:
6
July 26
HW 3 due on July 27 9:30am Lec 6 slides

Agreement, Citation, Propositional Attitude

Optional extra reading:
7
July 29
HW 4 is due on July 31 at 9:30am. Lec 7 slides

Jinho's slides on HW 3

Dialog Acts and Sarcasm

Optional extra reading:
8
Aug 2
Lec 8 slides

Positioning and Authority

Optional extra reading: