(Punta Cana Time; UTC-4)
09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10 - 09:40 Invited Talk 1 - Koichiro Yoshino
09:40 - 10:10 Invited Talk 2 - Pascale Fung
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Paper Oral Session
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:30 Invited Talk 3 - Tsung-Hsien Wen
13:30 - 14:00 Invited Talk 4 - Idan Szpektor
14:00 - 14:20 Coffee Break
14:20 - 14:50 Invited Talk 5 - Mona Diab
14:50 - 16:50 Paper Poster Session
16:50 - 17:00 Closing Remarks
Best Paper:
Teach Me What to Say and I Will Learn What to Pick: Unsupervised Knowledge Selection Through Response Generation with Pretrained Generative Models
Ehsan Lotfi, Maxime De Bruyn, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans
Honorable Mention Papers:
XPersona: Evaluating Multilingual Personalized Chatbot
Zhaojiang Lin, Zihan Liu, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Andrea Madotto, Yejin Bang, Etsuko Ishii and Pascale Fung
Using Pause Information for More Accurate Entity Recognition
Sahas Dendukuri, Pooja Chitkara, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Xiao Yang, Manos Tsagkias and Stephen Pulman
10:30 - 10:39: On the Robustness of Intent Classification and Slot Labeling in Goal-oriented Dialog Systems to Real-world Noise
Sailik Sengupta, Jason Krone and Saab Mansour
10:39 - 10:48: XPersona: Evaluating Multilingual Personalized Chatbot (honorable mention paper)
Zhaojiang Lin, Zihan Liu, Genta Indra Winata, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Andrea Madotto, Yejin Bang, Etsuko Ishii and Pascale Fung
10:48 - 10:57: Collaborative Data Relabeling for Robust and Diverse Voice Apps Recommendation in Intelligent Personal Assistants
Qian Hu, Thahir Mohamed, Wei Xiao, Zheng Gao, Xibin Gao, Radhika Arava, Xiyao Ma and Mohamed AbdelHady
10:57 - 11:06: PLATO-KAG: Unsupervised Knowledge-Grounded Conversation via Joint Modeling
Xinxian Huang, Huang He, Siqi Bao, Fan Wang, Hua Wu and Haifeng Wang
11:06 - 11:15: Improving Dialogue State Tracking by Joint Slot Modeling
Ting-Rui Chiang and Yi-Ting Yeh
11:15 - 11:24: Personalized Search-based Query Rewrite System for Conversational AI
Eunah Cho, Ziyan Jiang, Jie Hao, Zheng Chen, Saurabh Gupta, Xing Fan and Chenlei Guo
11:24 - 11:33: Investigating Pretrained Language Models for Graph-to-Text Generation
Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Martin Schmitt, Hinrich Schütze and Iryna Gurevych
11:33 - 11:42: Using Pause Information for More Accurate Entity Recognition (honorable mention paper)
Sahas Dendukuri, Pooja Chitkara, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Xiao Yang, Manos Tsagkias and Stephen Pulman
11:42 - 11:51: Teach Me What to Say and I Will Learn What to Pick:
Unsupervised Knowledge Selection Through Response Generation with Pretrained Generative Models (best paper)
Ehsan Lotfi, Maxime De Bruyn, Jeska Buhmann and Walter Daelemans
11:51 - 12:00: Influence of user personality on dialogue task performance: A case study using a rule-based dialogue system
Ao Guo, Atsumoto Ohashi, Ryu Hirai, Yuya Chiba, Yuiko Tsunomori and Ryuichiro Higashinaka