9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Check-in and coffee
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM: Intro & Welcome
Filip Radlinski, Google
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM: University Relations Intro
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Keynote
Hadar Shemtov, Google
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 AM - 12:20PM: Lightning Talks
Marijin Koolen, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences - Narrative-Driven Recommendation and casual leisure needs
Jeff Dalton, University of Glasgow - The TREC Conversational Assistance Track (CAsT) 2019 benchmark
Emine Yilmaz, University College London - Evaluation/recommendation in context of conversational search
Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University - How good is neural response generation?
12:50 PM - 2:10 PM: Lunch
2:10 PM - 3:30PM: Lightning Talks
Tushar Chandra, Google - ConvRec
Idan Szpektor, Google - Dynamic composition in conversational domain exploration
Tom Kenter, Google - Varying prosody in synthesized speech
Enrique Alfonseca, Google - Neural generation and summarization for Question Answering
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Keynote
Eugene Agichtein, Emory University / Amazon - Modeling user intent and satisfaction for open domain conversational agents
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM: Break
4:45 PM - 5:15 PM: Keynote
Srini Narayanan, Google - Conversation and Reference
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM: Poster/Demo Session (Please complete this form if you are presenting a poster or demo)
Marc Schroeder, Google - What would it take for an Assistant to understand me?
Edwin Simpson, Technische Universität Darmstadt - Bayesian preference learning and noisy label aggregation for interactive NLP
Filip Radlinski, Google - Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation
Pat Healey, Queen Mary University of London - Making Sense
Joe Konstan, University of Minnesota - Recommender Systems Research: GroupLens Center for Social and Human-Centered Computing
Martha Larson , Radboud University and TU Delft
Fedelucio Narducci, University of Bari Aldo Moro - Italy
Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh - Deep Dungeons and Dragons: Learning Character-Action Interactions from Role Playing Game Transcripts
Konstantina Christakopoulou, Google - A Two-Stage Approach Toward Interactive Recommendation
Dave Howcroft, Heriot-Watt University - Toward Bayesian Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars for Sentence Planning
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM: Dinner
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Check-in and coffee
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM: Lightning Talks
Milica Gasic, Heinrich-Heine-University - Curiosity driven reinforcement learning for dialogue management
Patrick Healey, Queen Mary University of London - Collaborating on Questions and Answers
Joe Konstan, University of Minnesota - Human-Centered Recommender Systems: From Metrics to User Experience
Fedelucio Narducci, University of Bari Aldo Moro - Italy - Converse: A framework for Building Conversational Recommender Systems
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM: Break
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM: Lightning Talks
Thomas Mueller, Google - Context Modelling for Conversational Agents
Luis Sarmento, Google - Document-Level Intent Classification for Question Answering
Deepak Ramachandran, Google - Conversational Endorsements
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM: Closing / Wrap up
12:20 PM - 3:00 PM: Lunch Social (Regent's Canal Cruise)
We will walk to the dock next to the Lighterman Restaurant - 3 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4BH, UK to board the boat.