Connectionists: Call for Papers - IEEE Transactions on AI: Special Issue on Conversational AI (deadline extended to 30 September 2023)

[Amir Hussain]

Dear all

Due to several requests from authors, we are pleased to announce that the
paper submission deadline for the IEEE TAI Special Issue on "Conversational
AI" has been extended to 30 September. Please see updated Call for Papers
below.

We look forward to your submissions,

Sincerely

Guest Editors Team:

Professor Amir Hussain, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Professor Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh,
Profesor Roberto Pieraccini, (formerly) Google NYC, USA,
Professor Dong Yu, Tencent AI Lab, USA

IEEE Transactions on AI (TAI): Special Issue on: “Conversational AI”

Conversational AI is an emerging interdisciplinary research and innovation
field, involving diverse topics ranging from machine learning, speech and
natural language processing, understanding and generation, to ethics,
sociology and psychology. It has gained increasing popularity in recent
years through effective integration in commercial personal assistants such
as Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Personal Assistant, ChatGPT, and many
others.

State of the art in conversational AI is being advanced through a number of
global initiatives, including the Amazon Alexa prize competition and
NeurIPS Conversational Intelligence Challenge live competition. These are
continuing to identify and address various open challenges and questions
including, in particular, the growing need for large multi-modal language
models to deliver more natural, socially responsible and mult-lingual
conversational agents, user interfaces and human-machine dialogue systems.

This timely special issue aims to bring together interdisciplinary
communities to advance state-of-the-art in conversational AI technologies
and applications. It will also serve to promote cross-fertilisation of
ideas and insights and bridge the gap between academic research and
commercial innovation in the area.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

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   ●  Large language models in conversational AI and human-machine dialog
   systems
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   ●  ChaptGPT variations
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   ●  Speech based multi-modal processing for conversational AI
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   ●  Contextual language understanding and natural language processing
   internationalisation
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   ●  Emotion-sensitive dialog/chatbot/agent systems
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   ●  Semi-supervised, self-supervised and reinforcement learning in
   dialog/chatbot/agent systems
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   ●  Human-in-the-loop trustworthy dialog/chatbot/agent systems
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   ●  Contextual multimodal dialog data collection and evaluation
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   ●  User preference-aware evaluation of dialog/chatbot/agent systems
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   ●  Trustworthy discourse modeling
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   ●  Unimodal and multimodal coreference resolution in natural dialog
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   ●  Natural dialog representation learning
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   ●  Natural language processing for conversational AI
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   ●  New Interdisciplinary and integrative approaches, such as contextual
   integration of conversational

   AI, chatbots and robots, with IoT, 5G/6G, wireless/wearable sensing,
   augmented/mixed reality.
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   ●  Applications with novel contributions in different domains including
   assistive hearing, speech

   communication technology, healthcare, customer service, sales,
   marketing, retail and e-commerce.

   Timeline:
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      ●  Submission deadline: September 30, 2023
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      ●  First notification: November 30, 2023
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      ●  Subsequent review rounds as required
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      ●  Final decision: March 31, 2024
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      ●  Expected Publication date: End of 2024
      1.

      Guest Editors:

      Amir Hussain, Edinburgh Napier University, UK E-mail:
      a.hussain at napier.ac.uk
      2.

      Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK E-mail:
      o.lemon at hw.ac.uk
      3.

      Roberto Pieraccini, (formerly) Google NYC, USA Email:
      robertopieracc at gmail.com
      4.

      Dong Yu, Tencent AI Lab, USA E-mail: dongyu at ieee.org
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