Schedule - August 16, 2024 (Friday)

(Bangkok Time; GMT+7)

09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks

09:10 - 09:40 Invited Talk 1: Knowledge Base Question Answering: Case Studies in Transfer Learning and Unanswerability (Mausam)

09:40 - 10:10 Invited Talk 2: Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Conversational AI for Fintech (Xiang Gao)

10:10 - 10:30 Oral Paper 1: Revealing User Familiarity Bias in Task-Oriented Dialogue via Interactive Evaluation (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: Factual and Faithful Generation with Knowledge Retrieval (Scott Wen-Tau Yih)

14:00 - 14:20 Oral Paper 2: Engineering Conversational Search Systems: A Review of Applications, Architectures, and Functional Components (Outstanding Paper)

14:20 - 14:40 Oral Paper 3: Evaluating Robustness of Open Dialogue Summarization Models in the Presence of Naturally Occurring Variations

14:40 - 15:00 Oral Paper 4: SOLID: Self-seeding and Multi-intent Self-instructing LLMs for Generating Intent-aware Information-Seeking Dialogs 

15:00 - 15:30 Invited Talk 4: Mixture-of-Agents Enhances Large Language Model Capabilities (Ben Athiwaratkun)

15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 - 16:20 Shared Task

16:20 - 16:40 Oral Paper 5: Aligning to Thousands of Preferences via System Message Generalization

16:40 - 17:00 Oral Paper 6: Visualizing Dialogues: Enhancing Image Selection through Dialogue Understanding with Large Language Models

17:00 - 17:10 Closing Remarks