Call for Papers

The workshop solicits novel contributions that relate broadly to Neural Conversational AI, with applications to task-oriented dialogue, chitchat, healthcare, and education. Relevant conversational topics include (but not limited to):

1. Grounding in external systems

2. Safety/integrity/robustness

3. Continual learning

4. Natural language understanding

5. Dialogue representation learning

6. Multimodal conversations

7. User modeling

8. Evaluation metrics

9. Deployment in production

10. Dialogue state tracking and representation

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: February 26 March 8, 2021

Decision Notification: March 26, 2021

Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 15, 2021

Workshop Date: May 8 May 7, 2021

Submission Instructions

Submitted papers can be up to 8 pages in ICLR submission format (double-blind), excluding references and supplementary material. We allow an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material, but reviewers are not required to review the supplementary material. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop as contributed talks and/or posters. At the discretion of authors, accepted papers can be published through the workshop website.

Concurrent Submissions

We welcome research papers currently under review at archival NLP and ML conferences (e.g., NAACL 2021, ACL 2021, and ICML 2021). Submission to NeuCAIR workshop will not break the anonymity or dual submission policies for these conferences.

Submission Website

https://openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2021/Workshop/NeuCAIR