DSTC8 Workshop @ AAAI-20

Workshop Information

DSTC8 Workshop will be held at AAAI-20 on February 8, 2020 at the Hilton New York Midtown, New York, USA.

The AAAI-20 online registration is available at https://aaaiconf.cvent.com/AAAI-20.

Workshop Program

09:20-09:30 Opening Welcome Remarks, Seokhwan Kim [slides]


Track 1: Multi-domain Task Completion

(Chair: Jinchao Li & Hannes Schulz)

09:30-09:50 Results of the Multi-Domain Task-Completion Dialog Challenge, Jinchao Li, Hannes Schulz, Adam Atkinson, Mahmoud Adada, Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao, Sungjin Lee, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Ryuichi Takanobu

09:50-10:10 End-to-end neural architecture for pipelined dialogue system using GPT-2, Donghoon Ham*, Jeong-Gwan Lee*, Youngsoo Jang, Kee-Eung Kim (* Student Travel Grant Winners)

10:10-10:30 Hybrid Generative-Retrieval Transformers for Fast Domain Adaptation, Igor Shalyminov, Alessandro Sordoni, Adam Atkinson, Hannes Schulz


10:30-10:50 Coffee Break


Track 2: NOESIS II - Predicting Responses, Identifying Success, and Managing Complexity in Task-Oriented Dialogue

(Chair: Jonathan Kummerfeld)

10:50-11:10 NOESIS II: Predicting Responses, Identifying Success, and Managing Complexity in Task-Oriented Dialogue, Chulaka Gunasekara, Jonathan K Kummerfeld, Luis Lastras, Walter Lasecki

11:10-11:30 Transformer-based Semantic Matching Model for Neotic Response Selection, Yiying Yang, Kaijie Zhou, Xuan Li, Dawei Zhu, Xiaoyuan Yao, Jianping Shen

11:30-11:50 Enhancing Response Selection with Advanced Context Modeling and Post-training, ShuangZhi Wu, Yufan Jiang, Xu Wang, Wei Miao, Zhenyu Zhao, Xie Jun, Mu Li


Track 1 & 2

11:50-12:40 Poster Session (Chair: Jinchao Li, Hannes Schulz & Jonathan Kummerfeld)


12:40-13:40 Lunch Break


Track 3: Audio Visual Scene-aware Dialog

(Chair: Tim K Marks)

13:40-14:00 Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog (AVSD) Track for Natural Language Generation in DSTC8, Chiori Hori, Anoop Cherian, Takaaki Hori, Tim K. Marks

14:00-14:20 Bridging Text and Video: A Universal Multimodal Transformer for Video-Audio Scene-Aware Dialog, Zekang Li, Zongjia Li, Jinchao Zhang, Yang Feng, Cheng Niu, Jie Zhou

14:20-14:40 Multi-step Joint-Modality Attention Network for Scene-Aware Dialogue System, Yun-Wei Chu, Kuan-Yen Lin, Chao-Chun Hsu, Lun-Wei Ku


Track 4: Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking

(Chair: Srinivas Sunkara & Xiaoxue Zang)

14:40-15:00 Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking Task at DSTC8, Abhinav Rastogi, Xiaoxue Zang, Srinivas Sunkara, Raghav Gupta, Pranav Khaitan

15:00-15:20 An End-to-End Dialogue State Tracking System with Machine Reading Comprehension and Wide & Deep Classification, Yue Ma, Zengfeng Zeng, Dawei Dawei Zhu, Xuan Li, Yiying Yang, Xiaoyuan Yao, Kaijie Zhou, Jianping Shen

15:20-15:40 The SPPD System for Schema Guided Dialogue State Tracking Challenge, Miao Li, Haoqi Xiong, Yunbo Cao


15:40-16:00 Coffee Break


Track 3 & 4

16:00-16:50 Poster Session (Chair: Tim K Marks, Srinivas Sunkara & Xiaoxue Zang)


Future DSTC & Closing

16:50-17:50 DSTC9 Track Proposals (Chair: Abhinav Rastogi)

2 mins oral presentation + 40 mins poster presentation

17:50-18:00 Wrap-up Talk, Michel Galley [slides]

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: Nov 17, 2019
  • Paper acceptance notification: Dec 3, 2019
  • AAAI early registration deadline: Dec 13, 2019
  • Camera-ready submission deadline: Dec 18, 2019
  • AAAI online registration deadline: Jan 10, 2020
  • DSTC8 workshop @ AAAI: Feb 8, 2020

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