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| Tuesday, November 12, 2019 by Chris Wellekens |
3-3-18 (2019-12-14) Call for papers : 3rd NeurIPS workshop on conversational AI, Vancouver, Canada
Call for papers : 3rd NeurIPS workshop on conversational AI Note: This year, we will have two submission phases - IE, two paper deadlines. We can guarantee registration places only for accepted papers submitted by the first deadline. We encourage all prospective authors to apply for a registration through the NeurIPS lottery; if you do not get a registration through the NeurIPS lottery, please submit papers in the first phase.
Description
In less than a decade, conversational systems have become commonplace. Every day, millions of people use natural-language interfaces such as Siri, Google Now, Cortana, Alexa and others via in-home devices, phones, or messaging channels such as Messenger, Slack, Skype, among others. At the same time, interest among the research community in conversational systems has blossomed: for supervised and reinforcement learning, conversational systems often serve as both a benchmark task and an inspiration for new ML methods at conferences which don't focus on speech and language per se, such as NeurIPS, ICML, IJCAI, and others. Such movement has not been unnoticed by major publications. This year in collaboration with AAAI community, the AI magazine will have a special issue on conversational AI. Moreover, research community challenge tasks are proliferating, including the seventh Dialog Systems Technology Challenge (DSTC7), the Amazon Alexa prize, and the Conversational Intelligence Challenge live competitions at NeurIPS (2017, 2018).
Following two successful NeurIPS workshops:
2017: 9 invited talks, 26 submissions, 3 oral papers, 13 accepted papers, 37 reviewers
2018: 4 invited talks, 42 submission, 6 oral papers, 23 accepted papers, 58 reviewers,
we are excited to continue promoting cross-pollination of ideas between academic research centers and industry. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in this area, to clarify impactful research problems, understand well-founded methods, share findings from large-scale real-world deployments, and generate new ideas for future lines of research.
This workshop will include invited talks from academia and industry, contributed work, and open discussion. In these talks, senior technical leaders from many of the most popular conversational services will give insights into real usage and challenges at scale. We will end the day with an open discussion, including a panel consisting of academic and industrial researchers.
Invited Speakers
Y-Lan Boureau (Facebook)
Ryuchiro Higashinaka (NTT)
Alan Ritter (Ohio State University)
Gabriel Skantze (KTH)
David Traum (USC)
Zhou Yu (UC Davis)
Call for Papers
We invite you to submit your contributions in the area of conversational AI in NeurIPS style with maximum of 8 pages excluding the references. You can add supplementary material in addition to 8 pages, but reviewers are not required to review the extra material (e.g. your paper should stand on its own without the supplementary material). Selected papers will be presented through invited talks or posters. Maximum allowed size of posters is 36 x 48 inch (91 x 122 cm). Notice that our workshop is not archival. However, accepted submission will be hosted on this website similar to last year?s workshop. Given authors concern around posting their submissions to arXiv the organizing committed decided to lift the anonymity requirement for our workshop. This means the anonymity will be optional and decided by the authors. Hence, you can post your submissions to arXiv. For further questions, feel free to reach out to co-chairs through email (alborz.geramifard@gmail.com; jdw@alumni.princeton.edu).
Two phase submission process
This year, we will have two submission phases due to limitation for allocating tickets to authors. We advise all workshop attendees to enter their names for the NeurIPS lottery.
Phase 1 (Early Submission): Please follow the early submission, only if you did not win a ticket in the NeurIPS lottery. We will notify accepted authors by October 1st and provide tickets to the author presenting the paper.
Submission: 21st September 2019 11:59 PM EST (link)
Notification: 1st October 2019
Phase 2 (Regular Submission): If you already acquired the NeurIPS ticket, please follow the regular submission process below.
Submission: 1st October 2019 11:59 PM EST (link)
Notification: 1st November 2019
Shared dates for both phases:
Camera Ready: 14th November 2019
Registration Start: 6th September 2019
Workshop: 14th December 2019
Chairs:
Alborz Geramifard, Facebook
Jason Williams, Apple
Organizers:
Bill Byrne, Google
Asli Celikyilmaz, Microsoft
Milica Gasic, Heinrich Heine University
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon
Matthew Henderson, PolyAI
Luis A Lastras, IBM
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
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