Call for Papers

The 4th Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI invites submissions of long and short papers, with both empirical and theoretical nature, on recent advancements on conversational artificial intelligence and its applications in the real world. The event will be co-located with ACL 2022 on May 27th, 2022. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

• Language Understanding (NLU / SLU)

• Language Generation

• Dialogue State Tracking

• Policy Optimization (Supervised / Reinforced)

• End-to-End Dialogue Modeling

• Dialogue Data Collection / Datasets

• Dialogue Evaluation

• Multimodal Dialogue

• Contextual Modeling

• Discourse Modeling

• User modeling for Conv AI

• Dialogue Representation Learning

• Conversational AI Deployment

• Conversational Recommendations

• Proactive Conversational AI

• Human-in-the-loop Dialogue

Important Dates

• Paper Submissions Due

  • For papers submitted directly through our OpenReview site: February 18th, 2022 --> February 28th, 2022 (23:59 GMT-12)

  • For papers reviewed through ARR: February 28th, 2022 --> March 4th, 2022 (23:59 GMT-12)

• Notification of Acceptance: March 28th, 2022

• Camera-ready Paper Due: April 8th, 2022

• Workshop Date: May 27th, 2022

Submission Guideline

We welcome two types of submission: long & short papers. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. The submission should follow the ACL 2022 style and formatting guidelines (ACL Policies for Submission, Review, and Citation). Final versions of both submission types will be given one additional page of content for addressing reviewers’ comments. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings.

Submissions can be made directly to the workshop, or alternatively done through ACL Rolling Review (submit paper with reviews, see the ARR CFP guidelines).

The review will be double-blind (two-way anonymized review). Please do not include any self-identifying information in the submission.

Parallel-submission policy: Parallel submission to other venues will NOT be accepted. If you are unsure about your case, please feel free to contact us.

Best Paper Award

There will be Best Paper Award to recognize exceptional papers published at the workshop.

Contacts

Questions? Please contact us at: nlp4convai-organizers@googlegroups.com