(Dublin Time; GMT+1)

09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks

09:10 - 09:40 Invited Talk 1 - William Wang

HybriDialogue: Towards Information-Seeking Dialogue Reasoning Grounded on Tabular and Textual Data

09:40 - 10:10 Invited Talk 2 - Maria-Georgia Zachari

Dialog Management for Conversational Task-Oriented Industry Solutions

10:10 - 10:40 Oral Paper Session 1

10:10 - 10:25 Understanding and Improving the Exemplar-based Generation for Open-domain Conversation (Outstanding Paper)

Seungju Han, Beomsu Kim, Seokjun Seo, Enkhbayar Erdenee, Buru Chang

10:25 - 10:40 Conversational AI for Positive-sum Retailing under Falsehood Control

Yin-Hsiang Liao, Ruo-Ping Dong, Huan-Cheng Chang, Wilson Ma

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Poster Paper Session (list of papers)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30 Invited Talk 3 - Zhou Yu

Directions of Dialog Research in the Era of Big Pre-training Models

14:30 - 15:00 Invited Talk 4 - Michael Tjalve

Scaling Impact: the Case for Humanitarian NLP

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 - 15:50 Invited Talk 5 - Gokhan Tur

Past, Present, Future of Conversational AI

15:50 - 16:50 Oral Paper Session 2

15:50 - 16:05 Human Evaluation of Conversations is an Open Problem: comparing the sensitivity of various methods for evaluating dialogue agents (Best Paper)

Eric Michael Smith, Orion Hsu, Rebecca Qian, Stephen Roller, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason E Weston

16:05 - 16:20 RetroNLU: Retrieval Augmented Task-Oriented Semantic Parsing (Outstanding Paper)

Vivek Gupta, Akshat Shrivastava, Adithya Sagar, Armen Aghajanyan, Denis Savenkov

16:20 - 16:35 KG-CRuSE: Recurrent Walks over Knowledge Graph for Explainable Conversation Reasoning using Semantic Embeddings

Rajdeep Sarkar, Mihael Arcan, John Philip McCrae

16:35 - 16:50 Multimodal Conversational AI: A Survey of Datasets and Approaches

Anirudh S Sundar, Larry Heck

16:50 - 17:00 Closing Remarks