Resources

Deep Learning resources

• Deep Learning textbook by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. All of the chapters are available for free online from the book’s website, or it can purchased in hardcopy from Amazon for $72.
• Videos of Stanford’s course on Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

Dialog systems resources

• Spoken Dialogue Systems monograph by Kristiina Jokinen and Michael McTear (2010). Morgan and Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies (edited by Graeme Hirst).
• Introduction to Conversational Interface by Michael McTear, Zoraida Callejas, and David Griol.
• Neural Approaches to Conversational AI Question Answering, Task-Oriented Dialogues and Social Chatbots by J Gao, M Galley, and L Li.

Amazon Alexa

• The Amazon Alexa Prize

Data sets

• A Survey of Available Corpora for Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems
• ParlAi Datasets
• Kaggle Datasets
• Data from Yahoo! Labs
• Yelp Dataset Challenge
• Pete Skomoroch’s delicious data sets
• Google Dataset Search