1st Workshop on Conversational Interaction Systems (WCIS)
Abstract
Conversational interaction systems such as Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri, and Cortana have become very popular over the recent years. Such systems provide a conversational interface to a wide variety of content and on the web and in turn for IR systems. Some interactive systems like Facebook Portal and Echo Show also involve challenges with language understanding in combination with vision. Research challenges such as Dialogue System Technology Challenges and Amazon Alexa Prize have continued to inspire research in conversational AI bringing together researchers from different communities such as speech recognition, spoken language understanding, reinforcement learning, information retrieval, language generation, and multi-modal question answering.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and future of conversational agents and interactive systems. We will highlight applications like recommendation systems, search, knowledge graph induction, multi-modal interaction and web question answering. The workshop will include talks from senior technical leaders and researchers to share insights associated with building conversational systems at scale. We will issue an open call for papers and will prioritize innovative and impactful contributions. Accepted papers will be presented through contributed talks or poster presentations. We will end the workshop with an open panel discussion consisting of leading researchers.
SIGIR Website: https://sigir.org/sigir2019/program/workshops/
Room at the conference venue: Louis Armand Ouest
Invited Speakers
Important Dates
May 17, 2019 Submissions due (Extended deadline)
May 31, 2019 Paper notification
June 30, 2019 Camera-ready papers due
July 25, 2019 Workshop Day at SIGIR 2019
Important Links
Workshop Schedule: Schedule
Submission Link : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcis2019
Templates : https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Contact us: wcis-2019-organizers@googlegroups.com
Accepted Papers
Learning Question-Guided Video Representation for Multi-Turn Video Question Answering: Guan-Lin Chao, Abhinav Rastogi, Semih Yavuz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Jindong Chen and Ian Lane.
A Modular Task-oriented Dialogue System Using a Neural Mixture-of-Experts: Jiahuan Pei, Pengjie Ren and Maarten de Rijke.
Dialogue Act Classification in Group Chats with DAG-LSTMs: Ozan Irsoy, Rakesh Gosangi, Raymond Zhang, Mu Wei, Peter Lund, Duccio Pappadopulo, Brendan Fahy, Neophytos Neophytou and Camilo Ortiz.
Building a Dialogue from an Arbitrary Text: Boris Galitsky and Dmitry Ilvovsky.
Collaborative Deep Denoising Auto-Encoder framework for recommendation: Jinjin Zhao, Lei Wang, Dong Xiang and Brett Johanson.
Conversational agent for aerospace question answering: Gérard Dupont, Alexandre Arnold, Catherine Kobus, François Lancelot and Pooja Narayan.
Revisiting Iterative Relevance Feedback for Document and Passage Retrieval: Keping Bi, Qingyao Ai and W. Bruce Croft.
From Formal Argumentation to Conversational Systems: Oana Cocarascu, Antonio Rago and Francesca Toni.