09:00-09:05
09:05 - 09:40
9:40 - 10:30
Welcome [See Spotlight Videos, Papers, Photos, Presentations]
T1: Keynote Talk #1
Towards Open World Video Event Understanding - Flexible Representations and Commonsense Priors, Prof, Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida
Paper Spotlights 1
F-1: Pratik Jayarao and Arpit Sharma. Retraining DistilBERT for a Voice Shopping Assistant by Using Universal Dependencies [20 mins]
F-2: Shih-Han Chan, Tsai-Lun Yang, Yun-Wei Chu, Chi-Yang Hsu, Ting-Hao Huang, Yu-Shian Chiu and Lun-Wei Ku. Let’s Talk! Striking Up Conversations via Conversational Visual Question Generation [20 mins]
S-1: Hung-Ting Chen, Yu-Chieh Chao, Ta-Hsuan Chao and Wei-Yun Ma. Predict and Use Latent Patterns for Short-Text Conversation [10 mins]
10:30 - 10:45
*** Coffee Break / Open Discussions ***
10:45 - 11:20
11:20 - 11:50
T2: Keynote Talk #2
How Symbolic AI and ML can combine for the Design of Conversational Agents at Scale, Dr. Tathagata Chakraborti, IBM Research
Moderated Discussion: Role of Chatbots During COVID
Dr. Kalai Ramea, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Xerox
Venkataraman Sundareswaran, MCHC Fellow, AI & Machine Learning, World Economic Forum
Moderator: Prof. Biplav Srivastava, AI Institute, University of South Carolina
11:50 - 12:00
*** Coffee Break / Open Discussions ***
12:00 - 12:35
12:35 - 13:05
13:05 - 13:40
T3: Invited Talk #3
BEBO: A benefits chatbot to help unemployed people during COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Kalai Ramea, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Xerox
Paper Spotlights 2
S-2: Roshni Ramnani, Sakshi Jain, Shubhashis Sengupta and Sukanti Beer. RHEA TVA - A Platform for designing Virtual Agents with Intelligent Actions [10 mins]
S-3: Yunmo Chen, Sixing Lu, Fan Yang, Xiaojiang Huang, Xing Fan and Chenlei Guo. Pattern-aware Data Augmentation for Query Rewriting in Voice Assistant Systems [10 mins]
S-4: Francesca Alloatti, Luigi Di Caro and Alessio Bosca. Conversation Analysis, Repair Sequences and Human Computer Interaction - A theoretical framework and an empirical proposal of action [10 mins]
T4: Keynote Talk #4
Conversations with Data: Toward more contextual and interactive natural language interfaces, Dr. Ahmed Awadallah, Microsoft Research
13:40 - 14:00
*** Coffee Break / Open Discussions ***
14:00 - 14:35
14:35 - 15:15
15:15 - 15:30
T5: Keynote Talk #5
Do We Really Want Human-Machine Argumentation Dialogues?, Prof. John Licato, University of South Florida
Panel Discussion
Chatbots and Society
Panelists: Prof, Sudeep Sarkar, Prof. John Licato, Dr. Ahmed Awadallah, Dr. Kalai Ramea, Dr. Tathagata Chakraborti
´Moderator: Dr. Imed Zitouni, Google
Wrap-up with closing comments
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