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)

A BERT-based dialogue Agent for Multi-Domain Task-Completion dialogue Challenge, Haoqi Xiong, Miao Li, Yunbo Cao
Hierarchical Context Enhanced Multi-Domain Dialogue System, Jingyuan Yang, Jingyuan Yang, Liu Guang, Mao Yuzhao, Zhao Zhiwei, Gao Weiguo, Li Xuan, Jianping Shen
Show Us the Way: Learning to Manage Dialog from Demonstrations, Gabriel Gordon-Hall, Philip John Gorinski, Gerasimos Lampouras, Ignacio Iacobacci
Dropout-based Bayesian Q-network for Task-oriented Dialog Systems, Chansong Jo, Jeonpil Lee, Myoung-Wan Koo
Multi-domain Task Oriented Dialogue System Using Word Constraints, Chang-Uk Shin, Jeong-Won Cha
Attention based E2E system for next utterance selection of DSTC8, Tae-hoon Kim, Do-hyeon Kim, Seung-hyuk Choi
Pre-Trained and Attention-Based Neural Networks for Building Noetic Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems, Jia-Chen Gu, Tianda Li, Quan Liu, Xiaodan Zhu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yu-Ping Ruan
Model Ensembling of ESIM and BERT for Dialogue Response Selection, Dario Bertero, Takeshi Homma, Kenichi Yokote, Makoto Iwayama, Kenji Nagamatsu
Leveraging Speaker Profile and Knowledge Enrichment for End-to-End Advising Response Ranking, Sung-Ping Chang, Yun-Nung Chen, Ting-Rui Chiang, Chao-Wei Huang
Speaker-Aware BERT for Multi-Party Dialog Response Selection, Tatsuya Nishiyama, Ryota Tanaka, Yuya Ishijima, Akinobu Lee
A randomly wired network based on RoBERTa for sentence classification, Byoungjae Kim, Jungyun Seo, Myoung-Wan Koo
Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Domain Dialog Policies Via Action Embeddings, Jorge A Mendez, Alborz Geramifard, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Bing Liu

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)

Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog System Using Dynamic Memory Networks, Huiyuan Xie, Ignacio Iacobacci
Multimodal Transformer with Pointer Network for the DSTC8 AVSD Challenge, Hung Le, Nancy Chen
Pre-training Assisted Scene-aware Dialogue Generation, Junkun Chen, Huang He, Siqi Bao, Fan Wang
DSTC8-AVSD: Multimodal Semantic Transformer Network with Retrieval StyleWord Generator, Hwanhee Lee, Seunghyun Yoon, Franck Dernoncourt, Doo Soon Kim, Trung Bui, Kyomin Jung
Spatio-Temporal Scene Graph Reasoning for Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog at DSTC8, Shijie Geng, Gao Peng, Chiori Hori, Anoop Cherian
A BERT-based Unified Span Detection Framework for Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking, Xing Shi, Scot Fang, Kevin Knight
Zero-Shot State Tracking and User Adoption Tracking on Schema-Guided Dialogue, Shuyu Lei, Shuaipeng Liu, Mengjun Shen, Huixing Jiang, Xiaojie Wang
Fine-Tuning BERT for Schema-Guided Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking, Yu-Ping Ruan, Zhen-Hua Ling, Jia-Chen Gu, Quan Liu
LION-Net: LIghtweight ONtology-independent Networks for Schema-Guided Dialogue State Generation, Kai-Ling Lo, Ting-Wei Lu, Tzu-teng Weng, Yun-Nung Chen, I-Hsuan Chen
Goal-Oriented Multi-Task BERT-based Dialogue State Tracker, Pavel Gulyaev, Evgenia Elistratova, Vasily Konovalov, Yury Kuratov, Leonid P. Pugachev, Mikhail Burtsev
Domain-Aware Dialogue State Tracker For Multi-Domain Dialogue Systems, Vevake Balaraman, Bernardo Magnini
Candidate Attended Dialogue State Tracking Using BERT, Junyuan Zheng, Onkar Salvi, John Chan
Multimodal Dialogue State Tracking By QA Approach with Data Augmentation, Xiangyang Mou, Brandyn Sigouin, Ian Steenstra, Hui Su

Future DSTC & Closing

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

2 mins oral presentation + 40 mins poster presentation

Common Grounding Dialog Challenge, The University of Tokyo, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, & National Institute of Informatics
Towards Compositional Representations for Interactive Language Learning: CompGuessWhat?!, Heriot-Watt University, University of Copenhagen, University of Edinburgh, & Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access, Amazon Alexa AI
Contextual Task-Oriented Language Generation, Uber AI
Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II, Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University
Interactive Evaluation of Dialog, CMU & USC
Non-collaborative Dialog System Challenge, University of California, Davis
SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI, Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI
Doc2Dial: Document Grounded Dialogue Modeling, IBM Research AI

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