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The Eleventh Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC11)
Call for Participation
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dstc11
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Background
The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as "Dialog System Technology Challenge" to cover a wider variety of dialog-related problems.
For this year's challenge, we will have two challenge periods – one in the summer and one in the winter. We opened the call for track proposals and selected the following five tracks by peer-reviews:
Summer Tracks:
Ambiguous Candidate Identification and Coreference Resolution for Immersive Multimodal Conversations
Intent Induction from Conversations for Task-Oriented Dialogue
Winter Tracks:
Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge
Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Chair: Michel Galley - Microsoft
Track: Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen - National Taiwan University; Raghav Gupta - Google
Workshop: Zhang Chen - National University of Singapore; Paul Crook - Meta; Seungwhan (Shane) Moon - Meta
Publication: Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI; Satwik Kottur - Meta
Publicity: Sarik Ghazarian - USC; Behnam Hedayatnia - Amazon
DSTC11 Track Organizers
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Ambiguous Candidate Identification and Coreference Resolution for Immersive Multimodal Conversations
Seungwhan Moon, Satwik Kottur, Babak Damavandi, Alborz Geramifard (Meta AI & Meta Reality Labs)
Intent Induction from Conversations for Task-Oriented Dialogue
James Gung, Raphael Shu, Jason Krone, Salvatore Romeo, Arshit Gupta, Yassine Benajiba, Saab Mansour and Yi Zhang (AWS AI)
Speech-Aware Dialog Systems Technology Challenge
Izhak Shafran, Mingqiu Wang, Abhinav Rastogi, Hagen Soltau (Google)
Robust and Multilingual Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems
Mario Rodríguez-Cantelar (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Zhang Chen (National University of Singapore)
Chengguang Tang (Tencent AI Lab)
Ke Shi (Tencent AI Lab)
João Sedoc (New York University)
Luis Fernando D’Haro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Alexander Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)
Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Subjective Knowledge
Seokhwan Kim, Spandana Gella, Di Jin, Alexandros Papangelis, Behnam Hedayatnia, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur (Amazon Alexa AI)