Schedule - July 14, 2023 (Friday)

(Toronto Time; GMT-4)

09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks

09:10 - 09:40 Invited Talk 1:  Inclusive Conversational AI for Positive Impact (Diyi Yang)

09:40 - 10:10 Invited Talk 2: Build it for One @ Right Place Right Time: Leveraging Context in Conversational Systems (Larry Heck)

10:10 - 10:30 Oral Paper 1: Generating Video Game Scripts with Style (Best Paper)

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 12:00 Poster Session

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:00 Invited Talk 3: Building Better Writing Assistants In the Era of Conversational LLMs (Vipul Raheja)

14:00 - 14:20 Oral Paper 2: Response Generation in Longitudinal Dialogues: Which Knowledge Representation Helps?

14:20 - 14:40 Oral Paper 3: On the Underspecification of Situations in Open-domain Conversational Datasets (Outstanding Paper)

14:40 - 15:00 Oral Paper 4: Correcting Semantic Parses with Natural Language through Dynamic Schema Encoding

15:00 - 15:30 Invited Talk 4: Dialogue Evaluation via Offline Reinforcement Learning and Emotion Prediction (Nurul Lubis)

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 - 16:20 Invited Talk 5: Improving Open Language Models by Learning from Organic Interactions (Jason Weston)

16:20 - 16:40 Oral Paper 5: Conversational Recommendation as Retrieval: A Simple, Strong Baseline (Outstanding Paper)

16:40 - 17:00 Oral Paper 6: A Survey of Challenges and Methods in the Computational Modeling of Multi-Party Dialog

17:00 - 17:10 Closing Remarks