Dear list,
We are sending the first call for participation in The 10th dialogue system　technology challenge. We look forward to your participation.
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Call for Participation: The 10th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC10)
Website: https://sites.google.com/dstc.community/dstc10/
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Background
The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as "Dialog System Technology Challenge" to cover a wider variety of dialog-related problems.
For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and selected the following five parallel tracks by peer-reviews:
- MOD: Internet Meme Incorporated Open-domain Dialog (Tencent, and Chinese Academy of Science)
- Knowledge-grounded Task-oriented Dialogue Modeling on Spoken Conversations (Amazon Alexa AI)
- SIMMC 2.0: Situated Interactive Multimodal Conversational AI (Facebook)
- Reasoning for Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog (Rutger University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories)
- Automatic Evaluation and Moderation of Open-domain Dialogue Systems (National University of Singapore, New York University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Carnegie Mellon University)
Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).
Important Dates
- May or June, 2021: Training release data
- Late September, 2021: Test Data release
- Early October, 2021: Test Submission due
- November, 2021: Challenge paper submission due
- Janurary or February, 2022: Workshop (venue: TBD)
DSTC10 Organizing Committee
- Koichiro Yoshino - RIKEN, Japan
- Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen - National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Paul Crook - Facebook, USA
- Satwik Kottur - Facebook, USA
- Jinchao Li - Microsoft, USA
- Behnam Hedayatnia - Amazon, USA
- Seungwhan (Shane) Moon - Facebook, USA
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Koichiro Yoshino, Ph.D.
Team Leader, Knowledge Acquisition & Dialogue Research Team,
Guardian Robot Project, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research