W3: NLP for Conversational Al (NLP4ConvAI)
Tsung-Hsien Wen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Iñigo Casanueva, Mihail Eric, Anuj Kumar, Alexandros Papangelis, Rushin Shah, Zhou Yu
Live Session: Jul 9
(13:00-19:50 GMT)
| Time (PDT) | Event | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| July 9th, 6:00 AM-6:10 AM | Opening remark | Shawn Wen |
| July 9th, 6:10 AM-6:40 AM | Invited talk QA | Yun-Nung Chen |
| July 9th, 6:40 AM-7:10 AM | Invited talk QA | Antoine Bordes |
| July 9th, 7:10 AM-7:40 AM | Invited talk QA | Jacob Andreas |
| July 9th, 7:40 AM-7:50 AM | Using Alternate Representations of Text for Natural Language Understanding | Venkat Varada |
| July 9th, 7:50 AM-8:00 AM | On Incorporating Structural Information to improve Dialogue Response Generation | Nikita Moghe |
| July 9th, 8:00 AM-8:10 AM | CopyBERT: A Unified Approach to Question Generation with Self-Attention | Stalin Varanasi |
| July 9th, 8:10 AM-8:20 AM | How to Tame Your Data: Data Augmentation for Dialog State Tracking | Adam Summerville |
| July 9th, 8:20 AM-8:30 AM | Efficient Intent Detection with Dual Sentence Encoders | Iñigo Casanueva |
| July 9th, 8:30 AM-8:40 AM | Accelerating Task-Oriented Dialog Models | Ojas Ahuja |
| July 9th, 8:40 AM-8:50 AM | DLGNet: A Transformer-based Model for Dialogue Response Generation | Olabiyi Oluwatobi |
| July 9th, 8:50 AM-9:00 AM | Data Augmentation for Training Dialog Models Robust to Speech Recognition Errors | Longshaokan Wang |
| July 9th, 9:00 AM-10:00 AM | Panel | |
| July 9th, 10:00 AM-10:30 AM | Invited talk QA | Jesse Thomason |
| July 9th, 10:30 AM-11:00 AM | Invited talk QA | Dilek Hakkani-Tür |
| July 9th, 11:00 AM-11:30 AM | Invited talk QA | Jason Williams |
| July 9th, 11:30 AM-11:40 AM | Automating Template Creation for Ranking-Based Dialogue Models | Jingxiang Chen |
| July 9th, 11:40 AM-11:50 AM | From Machine Reading Comprehension to Dialogue State Tracking: Bridging the Gap | Shuyang Gao |
| July 9th, 11:50 AM-12:00 PM | Improving Slot Filling by Utilizing Contextual Information | Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh |
| July 9th, 12:00 PM-12:10 PM | Learning to Classify Intents and Slot Labels Given a Handful of Examples | Jason Krone |
| July 9th, 12:10 PM-12:20 PM | MultiWOZ 2.2 : A Dialogue Dataset with Additional Annotation Corrections and State Tracking Baselines | Xiaoxue Zang |
| July 9th, 12:20 PM-12:30 PM | Sketch-Fill-A-R: A Persona-Grounded Chit-Chat Generation Framework | Michael Shum |
| July 9th, 12:30 PM-12:40 PM | Probing Neural Dialog Models for Conversational Understanding | Abdelrhman Saleh |
| July 9th, 12:40 PM-12:50 PM | Closing remark |
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