Future Challenges

The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9)

Track Proposals

• 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

Tentative Timeline

• January 25, 2020: Track Proposal Submission Deadline
• February 8, 2020: DSTC9 Planning Session @ DSTC8 Workshop
• March 7, 2020: Track Acceptance Notification
• March-May, 2020: Track Preparation
• June-September, 2020: Challenge Period