Connectionists: Call for papers -- Conversational AI: Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential

[Y-Lan Boureau]

************************* Call for papers Workshop Title: Conversational
AI: “Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential” Workshop Website:
http://alborz-geramifard.com/workshops/nips18-Conversational-AI
<http://alborz-geramifard.com/workshops/nips18-Conversational-AI> Workshop
Date: December 7thWorkshop Location: Montreal, CanadaSubmission:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CONVERSATIONALAI2018
<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CONVERSATIONALAI2018>Deadline: October
25th, 11:59 PM EST ************************* Description: In the span of
only a few years, conversational systems have become commonplace. Every
day, millions of people use natural-language interfaces such as Siri,
Google Now, Cortana, Alexa and others via in-home devices, phones, or
messaging channels such as Messenger, Slack, Skype, among others.  At the
same time, interest among the research community in conversational systems
has blossomed: for supervised and reinforcement learning, conversational
systems often serve as both a benchmark task and an inspiration for new ML
methods at conferences which don't focus on speech and language per se,
such as NIPS, ICML, IJCAI, and others.  Research community challenge tasks
are proliferating, including the seventh Dialog Systems Technology
Challenge (DSTC7), the Amazon Alexa prize, and the Conversational
Intelligence Challenge live competitions at NIPS (2017, 2018).Following the
overwhelming participation in our NIPS workshop last year (9 invited talks,
26 submissions, 3 orals papers, 13 accepted papers, 37 PC members, and
couple of hundreds of participants), we are excited to continue promoting
cross-pollination of ideas between academic research centers and industry.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners in this area, to clarify impactful research problems, share
findings from large-scale real-world deployments, and generate new ideas
for future lines of research. This workshop will include invited talks,
contributed work, and open discussion.  In these talks, senior technical
leaders from both academia and industry will give insights into real usage
and challenges at scale. We will prioritize forward-looking papers that
propose interesting and impactful contributions. We will end the day with
an open discussion, including a panel consisting of academic and industrial
researchers.Invited Speakers: • Maxine Eskenazi (Carnegie Mellon
University)• Milica Gasic (University of Cambridge)• Mari Ostendorf
(University of Washington)• Lazaros C Polymenakos (IBM)• Alexander Rudnicky
(Carnegie Mellon University)• Ruhi Sarikaya (Amazon)Co-chairs: • Alborz
Geramifard (Amazon)• Jason Williams (Apple) Organizers:• Y-Lan Boureau
(Facebook)• Maxine Eskenazi (CMU)• Milica Gašić (University of Cambridge)•
Jim Glass (MIT)• Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Amazon)• Larry Heck (Samsung)• Lazaros
C Polymenakos (IBM)• Steve Young (Apple)*
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