NLP for Conversational AI

ACL 2020 Workshop in Seattle, USA

Note, since this year's NLP4ConvAI workshop goes virtual, we only host live QA session (and a panel session) on the workshop day. Therefore, in order to get the most out of the workshop, it is recommended that you watch all the prerecorded talks before the workshop day.

Live Q&A Schedule

Accepted papers

  • Paper 1: Improving Slot Filling by Utilizing Contextual Information, Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh, Franck Dernoncourt and Thien Huu Nguyen
  • Paper 2: On Incorporating Structural Information to improve Dialogue Response Generation, Nikita Moghe, Priyesh Vijayan, Balaraman Ravindran and Mitesh M. Khapra
  • Paper 3: Sketch-Fill-A-R: A Persona-Grounded Chit-Chat Generation Framework, Michael Shum, Stephan Zheng, Wojciech Kryscinski, Caiming Xiong and Richard Socher
  • Paper 4: Automating Template Creation for Ranking-Based Dialogue Models, Jingxiang Chen, Heba Elfardy, Simi Wang, Andrea Kahn and Jared Kramer
  • Paper 5: Using Alternate Representations of Text for Natural Language Understanding, Venkat Varada, Charith Peris, Yangsook Park and Christopher Dipersio
  • Paper 6: Efficient Intent Detection with Dual Sentence Encoders, Iñigo Casanueva, Tadas Temčinas, Daniela Gerz, Matthew Henderson and Ivan Vulić
  • Paper 7: From Machine Reading Comprehension to Dialogue State Tracking: Bridging the Gap, Shuyang Gao, Sanchit Agarwal, Di Jin, Tagyoung Chung and Dilek Hakkani-Tur
  • Paper 8: How to Tame Your Data: Data Augmentation for Dialog State Tracking, Adam Summerville, Jordan Hashemi, James Ryan and William ferguson
  • Paper 9: Probing Neural Dialog Models for Conversational Understanding, Abdelrhman Saleh, Tovly Deutsch, Stephen Casper, Yonatan Belinkov and Stuart Shieber
  • Paper 10: DLGNet: A Transformer-based Model for Dialogue Response Generation, Olabiyi Oluwatobi and Erik Mueller
  • Paper 11: Accelerating Task-Oriented Dialog Models, Ojas Ahuja and Shrey Desai
  • Paper 12: Learning to Classify Intents and Slot Labels Given a Handful of Examples, Jason Krone, Yi Zhang and Mona Diab
  • Paper 13: Data Augmentation for Training Dialog Models Robust to Speech Recognition Errors, Longshaokan Wang, Maryam Fazel-Zarandi, Aditya Tiwari, Spyros Matsoukas and Lazaros Polymenakos
  • Paper 14: CopyBERT: A Unified Approach to Question Generation with Self-Attention, Stalin Varanasi, Saadullah Amin and Guenter Neumann
  • Paper 15: MultiWOZ 2.2 : A Dialogue Dataset with Additional Annotation Corrections and State Tracking Baselines, Xiaoxue Zang, Abhinav Rastogi and Jindong Chen