| 08:00-09:00 | Registration |
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| Opening |
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| 09:00-09:10 | Welcome Remarks from DSTC Organizing Committee (Paper) (Slides) | Koichiro Yoshino |
| 09:10-09:25 | DSTC7 Task 1: Noetic End-to-End Response Selection - Track 1 Overview | Chulaka Gunasekara, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Lazaros Polymenakos, and Walter S. Lasecki |
| 09:25-09:40 | Grounded Response Generation Task at DSTC7 (Slides) - Track 2 Overview | Michael Galley, Chris Brockett, Xiang Gao, Jianfeng Gao, and Bill Dolan |
| 09:40-09:55 | Audio Visual Scene-aware dialog (AVSD) Track for Natural Language Generation in DSTC7 - Track 3 Overview | Huda Alamari, Chiori Hori, Tim K. Marks, Dhruv Batra, and Devi Parikh |
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| Track 1 Oral Session: Sentence Selection |
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| 09:55-10:15 | Sequential Attention-based Network for Noetic End-to-End Response Selection | Qian Chen and Wen Wang (Slides) |
| 10:15-10:35 | Comparison of Transfer-Learning Approaches for Response Selection in Multi-Turn Conversations | Jesse Vig and Kaiai Ramea (Slides) |
| 10:35-10:55 | Knowledge-incorporating ESIM models for Response Selection in Retrieval-based Dialog Systems | Jatin Ganhotra, Siva Sankalp Patel and Kshitij Fadnis |
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| 10:55-11:10 | Coffee break |
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| Invited Talks |
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| 11:10-12:10 |
Massively Multilingual Dialog and Q&A |
Holger Schwenk (Facebook AI Research, Paris) |
| 12:10-12:15 | Sponsor Talk | WeChat |
| 12:15-12:20 | Sponsor Talk | Adobe Research |
| 12:20-12:25 | Sponsor Talk | Uber AI |
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| 12:25-13:25 | Poster session 1 w. lunch |
| | Building Sequential Inference Models for End-to-End Response Selection | Jia-Chen Gu, Zhen-Hua Ling, Yuping Ruan and Quan Liu |
| | RAP-Net: Recurrent Attention Pooling Networks for Dialogue Response Selection | Chao-Wei Huang, Ting-Rui Chiang, Shang-Yu Su and Yun-Nung Chen |
| | End-to-end Gated Self-attentive Memory Network for Dialog Response Selection | Shuo Sun, Yik-Cheung Tam, Jie Cao, Can-Xiang Yan, Zuohui Fu, Cheng Niu and Jie Zhou |
| | Enhanced Sequential Representation Augmented with Utterance-level Attention for Response Selection | Taesun Whang, Dongyub Lee, Chanhee Lee and Heuiseok Lim |
| | Multi-level Context Response Matching in Retrieval-Based Dialog Systems | Basma El Amel Boussaha, Nicolas Hernandez, Christine Jacquin and Emmanuel Morin |
| | Spatio-Temporal Matching Network for Multi-Turn Responses Selection in Retrieval-Based Chatbots | Junyu Lu, Zeying Xie, Guang Ling, Chao Zhou and Zenglin Xu |
| | End-to-End Multimodal Dialog Systems with Hierarchical Multimodal Attention on Video Features | Hung Le, Steven C.H. Hoi, Doyen Sahoo and Nancy F. Chen |
| | Reactive Multi-Stage Feature Fusion for Multimodal Dialogue Modeling | Yi-Ting Yeh, Tzu-Chuan Lin, Hsiao-Hua Cheng, Yu-Hsuan Deng, Shang-Yu Su and Yun-Nung Chen |
| | Entropy-Enhanced Multimodal Attention Model for Scene-Aware Dialogue Generation | Kuan-Yen Lin, Chao-Chun Hsu, Yun-Nung Chen and Lun-Wei Ku |
| 13:25-14:25 | Poster session 2 w. lunch |
| | End-to-End Question Answering Models for Goal-Oriented Dialog Learning | Jamin Shin, Andrea Madotto, Minjoon Seo and Pascale Fung |
| | Noetic End-to-End Response Selection with Supervised Neural Network Based Classifiers and Unsupervised Similarity Models | Pawel Skórzewski, Weronika Sieińska and Marek Kubis |
| | Convolutional Neural Encoder for the 7th Dialogue System Technology Challenge | Mandy Korpusik and James Glass (Poster) |
| | Learning Multi-Level Information for Dialogue Response Selection by Highway Recurrent Transformer | Ting-Rui Chiang, Chao-Wei Huang, Shang-Yu Su and Yun-Nung Chen |
| | Top-K Attention Mechanism for Complex Dialogue System | Chang-Uk Shin and Jeong-Won Cha (Slides) |
| | Promoting Diversity for End-to-End Conversation Response Generation | Yu-Ping Ruan, Zhen-Hua Ling, Quan Liu, Jia-Chen Gu and Xiaodan Zhu |
| | Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation with Deep Attentional Latent-Variable Model | Hao-Tong Ye, Kai-Ling Lo, Shang-Yu Su and Yun-Nung Chen |
| | Investigation of Attention-Based Multimodal Fusion and Maximum Mutual Information Objective for DSTC7 Track3 | Bairong Zhuang, Wenbo Wang and Takahiro Shinozaki (Poster) |
| | Context, Attention and Audio Feature Explorations for Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog | Shachi H Kumar, Eda Okur, Saurav Sahay, Juan Jose Alvarado Leanos, Jonathan Huang and Lama Nachman |
| | Neural Machine Translation For Paraphrase Generation | Alex Sokolov |
| | Dynamic Memory Networks for Dialogue Topic Tracking | Seokhwan Kim |
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| Track 2 Oral Session: Sentence Generation |
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| 14:25-14:45 | Cluster-based Beam Search for Pointer-Generator Chatbot Grounded by Knowledge | Yik Cheung Tam, Jiachen Ding, Cheng Niu and Jie Zhou (Slides) |
| 14:45-15:05 | An Ensemble Dialogue System for Facts-Based Sentence Generation | Ryota Tanaka, Akihide Ozeki, Shugo Kato and Akinobu Lee (Slides) |
| 15:05-15:25 | The OneConn-MemNN System for Knowledge-Grounded Conversation Modeling | Junyuan Zheng, Surya Kasturi, Mason Lin, Xin Chen, Onkar Salvi, and Harry Jiannan Wang |
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| 15:25-15:40 | Coffee break |
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| Track 3 Oral Session: Audio Visual Scene Aware Dialog |
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| 15:40-16:00 | From FiLM to Video: Multi-turn Question Answering with Multi-modal Context | Dat Nguyen, Shikhar Sharma, Hannes Schulz and Layla El Asri |
| 16:00-16:20 | DSTC7-AVSD: Scene-Aware Video-Dialogue Systems with Dual Attention | Ramakanth Pasunuru and Mohit Bansal |
| 16:20-16:40 | CMU Sinbad's Submission for the DSTC7 AVSD Challenge | Ramon Sanabria, Shruti Palaskar and Florian Metze (Slides) |
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| Future DSTC & Closing |
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| 16:40-17:50 | DSTC8 Track Proposals | Seokhwan Kim |
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| 16:40-16:50 | End-to-end Task Completion Dialog Challenge | Microsoft Research & Tsinghua University |
| 16:50-17:00 | Towards Fast Adaptation of User Simulation to New Domains | Microsoft Research in Montreal |
| 17:00-17:10 | Multi-Domain Human-to-Human Dialog Understanding, a machine reading approach | Naver Labs Europe & Adobe Research |
| 17:10-17:20 | Dialog State Tracking for Conversational Image Editing | Adobe Research |
| 17:20-17:30 | NOESIS II: Predicting Responses, Identifying Success, and Managing Complexity in Task-Oriented Dialogue | IBM & University of Michigan |
| 17:30-17:40 | Audio Visual Scene-Aware Dialog Track | MERL & CMU |
| 17:40-17:50 | Scalable Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking | Google |
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| 17:50-18:00 | Wrap-up Talk | Chiori Hori |
DSTC7 Workshop will be held at AAAI on January 27, 2019 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. More information about registration will be provided later.
We will prepare the challenge summary paper as follows.
author={Koichiro Yoshino and Chiori Hori and Julien Perez and Luis Fernando D'Haro and Lazaros Polymenakos and Chulaka Gunasekara and Walter S. Lasecki and Jonathan Kummerfeld and Michael Galley and Chris Brockett and Jianfeng Gao and Bill Dolan and Sean Gao and Tim K. Marks and Devi Parikh and Dhruv Batra},
