WCIS 2019: 1st Workshop on Conversational Interaction Systems Paris, France, July 25, 2019 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/wcis |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcis2019 |
Submission deadline | May 17, 2019 |
Conversational interaction systems such as Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, and Cortana have become very popular over the recent years. Such systems provide a conversational interface to a wide variety of content and on the web and in turn for IR systems. Some interactive systems like Facebook Portal and Echo Show also involve challenges with language understanding in combination with vision. Research challenges such as Dialogue System Technology Challenges and Amazon Alexa Prize have continued to inspire research in conversational AI bringing together researchers from different communities such as speech recognition, spoken language understanding, reinforcement learning, information retrieval, language generation, and multi-modal question answering.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and future of conversational agents and interactive systems. We will highlight applications like recommendation systems, search, knowledge graph induction, multi-modal interaction and web question answering. The workshop will include talks from senior technical leaders and researchers to share insights associated with building conversational systems at scale. We will issue an open call for papers and will prioritize innovative and impactful contributions. Accepted papers will be presented through contributed talks or poster presentations. We will end the workshop with an open panel discussion consisting of leading researchers.
List of Topics
- End to end approaches for multi-turn dialog and retrieval systems
- Reinforcement and imitation learning for dialog and retrieval systems
- Dialog systems:
- Speech recognition
- Language understanding
- Dialog manager and state tracking
- Language generation and dialog evaluation
- Conversational approaches for information retrieval:
- Knowledge grounding
- Multi-turn interactions for addressing complex queries
- Conversational recommendation systems and personalization
- Surfacing and realization of search results
- Visual dialog and question answering
- Human-human, human-machine and multi-modal interactions
- Usability, interpretability and explain ability of conversational AI and IR models
- User modeling, user context, and personalization
Submission Guidelines
The submissions of research papers must be in PDF format and must be at most 6 pages (including figures, excluding references). The submissions should follow the current ACM two-column conference format. The templates are available on the ACM website (use the \“sigconf\” proceedings template). In addition to previously unpublished work, we also invite cross-submissions of relevant papers submitted to other conferences. Accepted cross-submissions will be presented as posters, with an indication of the original venue.
Please note that our workshop is non-archival, but accepted submissions will be hosted on this website. Submissions can be optionally anonymous (posting on arXiv is allowed) and should be submitted electronically via the conference submission system by the due date.
Committees
Advisory Committee
- Arindam Mandal, Amazon Alexa AI
- Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI
- Gokhan Tur, Uber AI
- Jan Sedivy, Czech Technical University
- Panagiotis Papadakos, FORTH -ICS
- Raefer Gabriel, Amazon Alexa AI
- Rushin Shah, Facebook Conversational AI
- Zhou Yu, University of California Davis
Program Committee
- Alessandra Cervone, University of Trento
- Ankur Bapna, Google AI
- Bhenam Hedayatnia, Amazon Alexa AI
- Dian Yu, University of California Davis
- Huaixiu Zheng, Uber AI
- Marco Damonte, University of Edinburgh
- Raghav Gupta, Google AI
- Sanghyun Yi, Caltech
- Semih Yavuz, University of California Santa Barbara
- Tagyoung Chung, Amazon Alexa AI
- Tanmay Rajpurohit, Genpact AI
- Pararth Shah, Facebook AI
Organizing Committee
- Chandra Khatri, Uber AI
- Rahul Goel, Amazon Alexa AI
- Abhinav Rastogi, Google AI
- Alexandros Papangelis, Uber AI
Venue
The workshop will be held jointly with SIGIR 2019 in the Cité des Sciences located in the north-east of Paris.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to wcis-2019-organizers@googlegroups.com