Dear ML Community, We are excited to announce and invite submissions of papers to the ICLR-21 Workshop on Neural Conversational AI: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Real World -- https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop.
The workshop solicits novel contributions that relate broadly to Neural Conversational AI, with applications including (but not limited to) task-oriented dialogue, chitchat, healthcare, and education. Submitted papers can be up to 8 pages in ICLR submission format (double-blind), excluding references and supplementary material. We allow an unlimited number of pages for references and supplementary material, but reviewers are not required to review the supplementary material. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop as contributed talks and/or posters. At the discretion of authors, accepted papers can be published through the workshop website. In addition to the previously unpublished work, given the non-archival nature of the workshop, we also welcome research papers recently published or currently under review at alternate archival NLP and ML conferences (e.g., NAACL, ACL, and ICML). *Invited Speakers*: Emily Dinan <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pfqzHqUAAAAJ&hl=en> (Facebook AI) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/home?authuser=0#h.oegnt27nvpb1> Jianfeng Gao <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fresearch%2Fpeople%2Fjfgao%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHlC57VnbBs7DwlrnvVEqpTyVEeag> (Microsoft Research) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/home?authuser=0#h.x3672f8lxtpc> Alborz Geramifard <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Falborz-geramifard.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHWgv441Rzqw_2FjiySe1hvuT_SVQ> (Facebook AI) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/home?authuser=0#h.oegnt27nvpb1> Dilek Hakkani-Tür <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fdilek-hakkani-tur-9517543%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGy-dUXo4W6VHeljk5ZzgAORMf4Lw> (Amazon Alexa AI) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/home?authuser=0#h.oegnt27nvpb1> Zachary Chase Lipton <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fzacklipton.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEtxegpBvqQMR8nrMyxVZltOyJwKA> (CMU) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/home?authuser=0#h.oegnt27nvpb1> Bing Liu <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.uic.edu%2F~liub%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHQKGnvAh6-8z1uagzF_el9ML5Xww> (UIC) Verena Rieser <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fverenateresarieser%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHD85c-4FD7i3y2GIJ4RmTPqRl1Pg> (Heriot Watt University) *Important Dates:* Paper Submission Deadline: February 26, 2021 Decision Notifications: March 26, 2021 Camera Ready Paper Deadline: April 15, 2021 Workshop: May 8, 2021 Sincerely, The organizing committee Ahmad Beirami <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fbeirami&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFqSWIMnWCHlVe9oXwnTrn1Yxp1eA> (Facebook AI) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/organizing-committee?authuser=0#h.e5i14v5xpk1b> Asli Celikyilmaz <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fasli.us%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG73Mg3z2xzfEwm9Vtw3lyxrXGUFg> (Microsoft Research) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/organizing-committee?authuser=0#h.a0fe7jqgbmd4> Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2F~yvchen%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEACjz4OMC00JHEyWTf1Q1qAx3jYw>(National Taiwan University) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/organizing-committee?authuser=0#h.8dmlpds2b8hn> Paul Crook <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.fb.com%2Fpeople%2Fcrook-paul-a%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEZPcBqZwu5BrVSaHWfmgeNMeeajg> (Facebook Reality Labs) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/organizing-committee?authuser=0#h.7m0jsau33yfk> Orianna Demasi <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbids.berkeley.edu%2Fpeople%2Forianna-demasi&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE3AuQ_JwZxMMUh7DOQtnr1P4Mn4Q> (UC Davis) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/organizing-committee?authuser=0#h.88cwoufjsipl> Stephen Roller <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstephenroller.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFsQHfTmmx4NnHT-4RyQ83vIZNyFA> (Facebook AI) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/organizing-committee?authuser=0#h.ba9okxsbg3wn> Chinnadhurai Sankar <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fchinnadhurai.github.io%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHIlXr_yOuSEuaNHL7Xf3UPPnmHSA> (Facebook AI) <https://sites.google.com/view/neucair-workshop/organizing-committee?authuser=0#h.ecnccx5o8lux> João Sedoc <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stern.nyu.edu%2Ffaculty%2Fbio%2Fjoao-sedoc&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHU6biPbUN5_k3e8Enyar0faE3Ddg> (NYU) Zhou Yu <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fzhouyu.cs.ucdavis.edu%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE_g3YX5F4S7yFXGkYNycCVJhfDDA> (Columbia)
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