2nd Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI
Call for papers
Scope
The ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of multimodal conversational AI.
Recently, conversational systems have seen a significant rise in demand due to modern commercial applications using systems such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant. The research on multimodal chatbots is a widely underexplored area, where users and the conversational agent communicate by natural language and visual data.
Conversational agents are now becoming a commodity as a number of companies push for this technology. The wide use of these conversational agents exposes the many challenges in achieving more natural, human-like, and engaging conversational agents. The research community is actively addressing several of these challenges: how are visual and text data related in user utterances? How to interpret the user intent? How to encode multimodal dialog status? What are the ethical and legal aspects of conversational AI?
The Multimodal Conversational AI workshop will be a forum where researchers and practitioners share their experiences and brainstorm about success and failures in the topic. It will also promote collaboration to strengthen the conversational AI community at ACM Multimedia.
Topics of Interest
Design and evaluation of conversational agents
User-Agent experience design
Preference elicitation in conversational agents
Recommendations in conversational systems
User-agent legal and ethical issues in conversational systems
Multimodal user intent understanding
Visual conversations/dialogs
Opinion recommendation in conversational agents
Deep learning for multimodal conversational agents
Conversation state tracking models and online learning
Supply/demand in conversational agents for e-commerce
Reinforcement learning in conversational agents
Resources and datasets
Conversational systems applications, including, but not limited to, e-commerce, social-good, music, Web search, healthcare.
Paper Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be written in English and be formatted according to the ACM templates and guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system.
Papers are up to 4 to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Full papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference.
Timeline
Submission: August 10
Notification: September 2 (revised)
Camera-ready copy: to be defined with ACM Multimedia organization
Workshop: week of October 20