Program

Welcome [See Presentations, Papers, Photos]

T1: Keynote Talk #1

Talking to Machines: the Era of the Virtual Assistant

Roberto Pieraccini, Director of Assistant, Google

Paper Spotlights 1

F-1: Jorge A. Mendez, Alborz Geramifard, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh and Bing Liu. Reinforcement Learning of Multi-Domain Dialog Policies Via Action Embeddings [20 mins]

F-2: Oluwatobi Olabiyi, Erik Mueller, Christopher Larson and Tarek Lahlou. Adversarial Bootstrapping for Dialogue Model Training [20 mins]

S-1: Zhuoxuan Jiang, Ziming Huang, Dong Sheng Li, Xian-Ling Mao, Yabin Dang and Shaochun Li, Modeling Dialog Flow Information for End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue by Multi-Task Representation Learning [10 mins]

T2: Keynote Talk #2

Putting together the threads of conversational AI?

Jason Weston, Research Scientist, Facebook, NY

Session on Datasets and Chatbots

Session Chair: Phil Cohen, Monash University

D-1: Madhavan Pallan. WikiDocs: A dataset of wikipedia as consumable format of wikipedia pages for NLP Projects; SubBot - 2.0 Chatbot for the commuters of New York Upgraded [10 mins]

D-2: Tanmay Chinchore, UCLA and Tantiv4 // Conversation Agent for IoT [10 mins]

D-3: Vittorio Castelli, IBM Research, TechQA, https://leaderboard.techqa.us-east.containers.appdomain.cloud/ [10 mins]

D-4: Kshitij Fadnis, IBM Research, Chatbot design [10 mins]

D-5: Chulaka Gunasekara, IBM Research // Dataset [10 mins]

* Cancelled - Jian Wang, Jianmin Jiang, Yanfei Wang, Ke Wang, Bibo Hao and Qin Shi, A Dataset of Question Semantic Similarity with Reasoning and Learning

T3: Invited Talk

Summary of DSTC8 and AAAI 2020 Workshop

Seokhwan Kim, Chair DSTC8, Amazon Alexa AI

T4: Keynote Talk #3

How can I help you? - Modeling intents in human-machine conversation

Tin Kam Ho, Senior AI scientist, IBM Watson

Paper Spotlights 2

F-3: Bruno Nishimoto and Anna Helena Reali Costa. Deep Recurrent Q-Learning for Partially Observable Dialog System [20 mins]

S-2: Oluwatobi Olabiyi and Erik Mueller, Multi-turn Dialogue Response Generation with Autoregressive Transformer Models [10 mins]

Paper Spotlights 3

F-4: Tirthankar Dasgupta and Manjira Sinha. Automatic Identification of Humors from text using Auxilary Classifier based GAN [20 mins]

S-3: Ziming Huang, Zhuoxuan Jiang, Ke Wang, Jie Ma and Shaochun Li, Deep Neural Multi-Task Learning for Reliable Dialog Transition and Assessment [10 mins]

S-4: Pablo Rivas, Chelsi Chelsi, Laharika Ravula and Nishit Nishit, Chatbot Deployment Considerations for Application-Agnostic Human-Machine Dialogues [10 mins]

Panel Discussion

"Conversation for Serious Business - When Will Customers Demand Support by Chatbots Rather Than Humans?"

Panelists: Pankaj Srivastava, VP, IBM, USA; Prof. Phil Cohen, Monash University, Australia; Dr. Erik Mueller, Senior Director, Capital One

Wrap-up with closing comments