Gaining Experience with Structured Data: Using the Resources of Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2

Ronnie Smith


Abstract
This paper describes a class project for a recently introduced undergraduate NLP course that gives computer science students the opportunity to explore the data of Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2 (DSTC 2). Student background, curriculum choices, and project details are discussed. The paper concludes with some instructor advice and final reflections.
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2021.teachingnlp-1.12
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP
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June
Year:
2021
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Online
Editors:
David Jurgens, Varada Kolhatkar, Lucy Li, Margot Mieskes, Ted Pedersen
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TeachingNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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70–79
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.teachingnlp-1.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.teachingnlp-1.12
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Ronnie Smith. 2021. Gaining Experience with Structured Data: Using the Resources of Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Teaching NLP, pages 70–79, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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