Call for Papers

The 2nd Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI invites papers of a theoretical and experimental nature on conversational artificial intelligence and its applications. The event will be co-located with ACL in Seattle, Washington, USA. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

• Language Understanding (NLU / SLU)
• Language Generation
• Dialogue State Tracking
• Policy Optimization (Supervised / Reinforced)
• Dialogue Evaluation
• Dialogue Data Collection / Datasets
• End-to-End Dialogue Modeling
• Slot-based Conversational AI
• Retrieval-based Conversational AI
• Generative Conversational AI
• Multimodal Dialogues
• Contextual Modeling
• Discourse Modeling
• Coreference Resolution
• Semantic Representation
• Dialogue Representation Learning
• Conversational AI Deployment
• Emergence of Communication
• Conversational Recommendations
• User modeling for Conv AI
• Proactive Conversational AI
• Learning from user feedback

Important Dates

Paper Submissions Due: April 17, 2020 (23:59 GMT-12)

Notification of Acceptance: May 8, 2020

Camera-ready Paper Due: May 15, 2020

Workshop Date: July 9 or 10, 2020

Submissions

We welcome three categories of papers: regular workshop papers, cross-submissions, and extended abstracts. Only the regular workshop paper will be included in the proceedings. Submissions should be made to https://www.softconf.com/acl2020/NLP4ConvAI.

Regular Workshop Papers

Authors should submit a paper up to 4-8 pages long, with unlimited reference and supplementary material pages. The submission should follow the ACL 2020 style and formatting guidelines (https://acl2020.org/calls/papers/). The papers should present novel research. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please do not include any self-identifying information in the submission. Double submission is allowed, but the paper accepted by another conference should be moved to cross-submissions.

Extended Abstracts

Preliminary but interesting ideas that have not been published before may be submitted as extended abstracts. These should be up to 2 pages long and would benefit from additional exposure and discussion but are not ready for publication. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please do not include any self-identifying information in the submission. Selection of extended abstracts will be determined solely by the organizing committee.

Cross-Submissions

In addition to previously unpublished work, we invite papers on relevant topics which have appeared in or submitted to alternative venues (such as other NLP or ML conferences). Accepted cross-submissions will be presented as posters, with an indication of the original venue. Selection of cross-submissions will be determined solely by the organizing committee.