Apologize for cross posting,
This is the final call for paper of the AAAI-19 workshop on the 7th
Dialog System Technology Challenge. We have extended the deadline
of paper submission to November 16th. We also accept any general
technical papers related to dialog system areas.
We are looking forward to your submissions, and meeting you at Hawaii.
Best regards,
Koichiro Yoshino, Challenge Chair
The AAAI-19 workshop on the 7th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC)
http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/
DSTC, the Dialog System Technology Challenge, has been a premier
research competition for Dialog Systems since its inception in 2013.
This workshop is the 7th edition in the series of DSTC challenges,
continuing the shift in DSTC6 to focus on end-to-end dialog tasks, in
order to explore the issue of applying end-to-end technologies to Dialog
Systems in a pragmatic way. Given the remarkable success of the first
six editions of DSTC, we are organizing the seventh edition of DSTC this
year.
DSTC7 has the following three tracks:
(1) Noetic End-to-End Response Selection.
Organized by Lazaros Polymenakos and Chulaka Gunasekara (IBM Research
AI, USA), and Walter S. Lasecki and Jonathan K. Kummerfeld (University
of Michigan, USA).
This challenge consists of sub-tasks on two datasets, one focused but
small (course advising) and the other more diverse but large (Ubuntu
support). In each, participants select the correct next utterances from
a set of candidates' and even indicate that none of the proposed
utterances is a good candidate. The objective is to push utterance
classification towards real world problems.
(2) End-to-End Conversation Modeling: Moving beyond Chitchat - Sentence
Generation.
Organized by Michel Galley, Chris Brockett, Bill Dolan, and Jianfeng Gao
(Microsoft AI&R).
This track proposes an end-to-end conversational modeling task, where
the goal is to generate conversational responses that go beyond
chitchat, by injecting informational responses that are grounded in
external knowledge.
(3) Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog (AVSD).
Organized by Chiori Hori and Tim K. Marks (Mitsubishi Electric Research
Laboratories), and Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra (Georgia Tech School of
Interactive Computing).
This track proposes an end-to-end audio-visual scene-aware dialog
system, where the goal is to understand scenes in order to have
conversations with the users about the objects and events around them.
For the final evaluation, the test sets will be provided on Sep. 10th
and the results will be submitted by Oct. 1st. Currently roughly 190
participants are registered for DSTC7. We will have a 1-day wrap-up
workshop at AAAI 2019 to review the state-of-the-art systems, share
novel approaches to the DSTC7 tasks, and discuss future directions for
dialog technology. We will invite system papers reporting the systems
submitted to DSTC7, general technical papers for end-to-end dialog
technologies and keynote speakers who have developed cutting-edge
approaches to data-driven dialog systems. You can find the information
of the previous workshop, DSTC6, at http://workshop.colips.org/dstc6/
We will prepare the challenge summary paper as follows.
@article{DSTC7,
title={The 7th dialog system technology challenge},
author = {Koichiro Yoshino and Chiori Hori and Julien Perez and Luis
Fernando D'Haro and Lazaros Polymenakos and Chulaka Gunasekara and
Walter S. Lasecki and Jonathan Kummerfeld and Michael Galley and Chris
Brockett and Jianfeng Gao and Bill Dolan and Tim K. Marks and Devi
Parikh and Dhruv Batra},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2018}
}
Organizing committee:http://workshop.colips.org/dstc7/committee.html
Workshop Chair: Chiori Hori, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
(MERL), USA
Challenge Chair: Koichiro Yoshino, Nara Institute of Science and
Technology (NAIST), Japan
Publication Chair: Julien Perez, Naver Labs Europe, France
Publicity Chair: Luis Fernando D'Haro, Technical University of Madrid,
Spain
Contact information: dstc7-organizer [at] is.naist.jp
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