Following on the success of the DSTC shared tasks since 2013, the DSTC organizing committees would like to invite track proposals for the 8th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC8) which will be held in 2019.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The challenge will consist of 3-4 tracks on the dialog research problems including, but not restricted to, the following topics:
- End-to-end dialog systems
- Dialog state tracking
- Dialog policy learning
- Spoken language understanding
- Natural language generation for dialog systems
- Multi-lingual dialog processing
- Multi-modal dialog processing
- Any other dialog-related tasks
PROPOSAL CONTENT
Track proposals should be about two (2) pages of main contents including the following:
- A title and a brief description of the proposed track
- A brief description of the datasets
- A brief description of the evaluation methods
- The names and full contact information of the track organizers
Track organizers are encouraged also to provide examples of input and output data as supplementary materials.
SUBMISSION
Track proposals should be submitted to the DSTC distribution list at dstc [at] lists.research.microsoft.com no later than January 11, 2019. PDF format is preferred.
PRESENTATION
The organizers of every submitted proposal are invited to present their track details at DSTC8 planning session scheduled in DSTC7 Workshop which will be held as an AAAI-19 Workshop on January 27, 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
IMPORTANT DATES
- January 11, 2019: Track Proposal Submission Deadline
- January 27, 2019: DSTC8 Planning Session @ DSTC7 Workshop
- February 28, 2019: Track Acceptance Notification
- March-May, 2019: Track Preparation
- June-September, 2019: Challenge Period
CONTACT
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