<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Dear all <br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>We look forward to your submissions,</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely</div><div><br></div><div>Guest Editors Team:</div><div><br></div><div>Professor Amir Hussain, Edinburgh Napier University, UK</div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">Professor Oliver Lemon</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">Profesor Roberto Pieraccini, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">(formerly) Google NYC, USA, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Professor Dong Yu</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(33,33,33)">, Tencent AI Lab, USA</span></div><div><br></div><div><div title="Page 1">
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700;color:rgb(1,42,58)">IEEE Transactions on AI (TAI): Special Issue on: “Conversational AI”
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">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.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">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.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">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.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Large language models in conversational AI and human-machine dialog systems
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">ChaptGPT variations
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Speech based multi-modal processing for conversational AI
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Contextual language understanding and natural language processing internationalisation
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Emotion-sensitive dialog/chatbot/agent systems
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Semi-supervised, self-supervised and reinforcement learning in dialog/chatbot/agent systems
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Human-in-the-loop trustworthy dialog/chatbot/agent systems
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Contextual multimodal dialog data collection and evaluation
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">User preference-aware evaluation of dialog/chatbot/agent systems
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Trustworthy discourse modeling
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Unimodal and multimodal coreference resolution in natural dialog
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Natural dialog representation learning
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Natural language processing for conversational AI
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">New Interdisciplinary and integrative approaches, such as contextual integration of conversational
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">AI, chatbots and robots, with IoT, 5G/6G, wireless/wearable sensing, augmented/mixed reality.
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">Applications with novel contributions in different domains including assistive hearing, speech
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(1,42,58)">communication technology, healthcare, customer service, sales, marketing, retail and e-commerce.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Timeline:</span></p></li><li><div title="Page 1">
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<li><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">● </span>Submission deadline: September 30, 2023
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">● First notification: November 30, 2023
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">● Final decision: March 31, 2024
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Guest Editors:
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">Amir Hussain, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">Edinburgh Napier University, UK </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,255)">E-mail: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:a.hussain@napier.ac.uk" target="_blank">a.hussain@napier.ac.uk</a> </span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">Oliver Lemon</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,255)">E-mail: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:o.lemon@hw.ac.uk" target="_blank">o.lemon@hw.ac.uk</a> </span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">Roberto Pieraccini, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">(formerly) Google NYC, USA </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Email: <a href="mailto:robertopieracc@gmail.com" target="_blank">robertopieracc@gmail.com</a> </span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Dong Yu</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(33,33,33)">, Tencent AI Lab, USA </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,255)">E-mail: <a href="mailto:dongyu@ieee.org" target="_blank">dongyu@ieee.org</a> </span></p></li>
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