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

[Amir Hussain]

Dear all

A final reminder - due to several requests from authors, the paper
submission deadline for the IEEE TAI Special Issue on "Conversational
AI" is extended to 30 September. Please see updated Call for Papers
below and here: https://cogmhear.org/assets/IEEE-TAI-Special-Issue.pdf

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 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:

●  Large language models in conversational AI and human-machine dialog systems
●  ChaptGPT variations
●  Speech based multi-modal processing for conversational AI
●  Contextual language understanding and natural language processing
internationalisation
●  Emotion-sensitive dialog/chatbot/agent systems
●  Semi-supervised, self-supervised and reinforcement learning in
dialog/chatbot/agent systems
●  Human-in-the-loop trustworthy dialog/chatbot/agent systems
●  Contextual multimodal dialog data collection and evaluation
●  User preference-aware evaluation of dialog/chatbot/agent systems
●  Trustworthy discourse modeling
●  Unimodal and multimodal coreference resolution in natural dialog
●  Natural dialog representation learning
●  Natural language processing for conversational AI
●  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.
●  Applications with novel contributions in different domains
including assistive hearing, speech communication technology,
healthcare, customer service, sales, marketing, retail and e-commerce.

Timeline:

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

Guest Editors:

Amir Hussain, Edinburgh Napier University, UK E-mail: a.hussain at napier.ac.uk
Oliver Lemon, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK E-mail: o.lemon at hw.ac.uk
Roberto Pieraccini, (formerly) Google NYC, USA Email: robertopieracc at gmail.com
Dong Yu, Tencent AI Lab, USA E-mail: dongyu at ieee.org