Schedule

Note, since this year's NeurIPS workshops goes virtual, we only host live QA session (and a panel session) on the workshop day. Therefore, in order to get the most out of the workshop, it is recommended that you watch all the prerecorded talks before the workshop day. We have put Reserved blocks of time as an opportunity to watch the pre-recorded talks before the Q/A. All times below are PST

If you have a ticket to NeurIPS you can access all the talks here

    • 6:10 am : Welcome and Opening Remarks

    • 6:20am: Reserved Block of time to watch Pre-recorded Invited Talks

    • 7:50 am: Invited Talk 1 Q/A - Milica Gašić

    • 8:05 am: Invited Talk 2 Q/A - Larry Heck

    • 8:20 am: Invited Talk 3 Q/A - Maxine Eskenazi

    • 8:35 am: Reserved Block of time to watch Pre-recorded Contributed Talks

    • 9:05 am: Contributed Talk 1 Q/A - "CheerBots: Chatbots toward Empathy and Emotion using Reinforcement Learning"

    • 9:15 am: Contributed Talk 2 Q/A - "Diluted Near-Optimal Expert Demonstrations for Guiding Dialogue Stochastic Policy Optimisation"

    • 9:25 am: Poster Session Presentations & Q/A

    • 10:30 am: Live Breakout sessions in parallel rooms

      • Human Evaluation session

      • Automatic evaluation session

    • 11:00 am: Reserved Block of time to watch Pre-recorded Contributed Talks

    • 11:20 am: Contributed Talk 3 Q/A - "The Lab vs The Crowd: An Investigation into Data Quality for Neural Dialogue Models"

    • 11:30 am: Contributed Talk 4 Q/A - "NICE: Neural Image Commenting Evaluation with an Emphasis on Emotion and Empathy"

    • 11:30 am: Reserved Block of time to watch Pre-recorded Invited Talks

    • 12:50 pm : Invited Talk 4 Q/A - Jason Weston

    • 1:05 pm: Invited Talk 5 Q/A - Zhou Yu

    • 1:20 pm: Invited Talk 6 Q/A - Gokhan Tür

    • 1:35 pm: Reserved Block of time to watch Pre-recorded Contributed Talks

    • 1:55 pm: Contributed Talk 5 Q/A - "Improving Dialogue Breakdown Detection with Semi-Supervised Learning"

    • 2:05 pm: Contributed Talk 6 Q/A - "Dialog Simulation with Realistic Variations for Training Goal-Oriented Conversational Systems"

    • 2:20 pm: Reserved Block of time to watch Pre-recorded Invited Talks

    • 3:30 pm: Invited Talk 7 Q/A - Ankur Parikh

    • 3:45 pm: Invited Talk 8 Q/A - Percy Liang

    • 4:00 pm: Invited Talk 9 Q/A- Alexander Rudnicky

    • 4:15pm : Panel Discussion

    • 5:15pm : Closing Remarks / Best Paper Award