Call For Papers

KDD Converse is a half day workshop taking place on Monday, August 24, 2020 in conjunction with KDD 2020 in San Diego, CA.

Important Dates

  • Submissions Due - June 15, 2020 (11: 59 P.M. AoE)
  • Notification - June 30, 2020
  • Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - July 10, 2020
  • KDD Converse half day Workshop - August 24, 2020
  • Workshop Website- KDD Converse 2020

We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers addressing relevant challenges in the domain of conversational systems. We invite submission of papers and posters of two to ten pages (including references), representing original research, preliminary research results, proposals for new work, position and opinion papers.


Topics

         Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Task oriented dialog and chat systems
  • End-to-end learning approaches for conversational systems
  • Information extraction and knowledge graphs
  • Dialogue state tracking and policy learning
  • Natural language processing in conversational systems
  • Natural language understanding in conversational systems
  • Design of conversational systems and agents
  • User-interaction and user-experience design
  • Preference elicitation approaches
  • Cold-start issues in conversational systems
  • Proactive systems
  • Critiquing in conversational systems
  • Question answering in conversational systems
  • Personalization in conversational systems
  • Recommendations-explanations in conversational systems
  • Dialogue management for conversational systems
  • Interaction methods in conversational systems
  • Evaluation and metrics
  • Integrating user feed-back and responses
  • Resources and data sets
  • Intent training and validation
  • Intent disambiguation
  • Agent deployment and management at scale
  • Challenges associated with general domain conversational systems
  • Challenges associated with domain specific conversational systems
  • Sarcasm and humor detection and generation in conversational systems

Submission Instructions

All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Papers will be judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. All submissions must be formatted according to the latest ACM SIG proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (LaTeX users use sample-sigconf.tex as a template). Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop

Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper.

Submissions to KDD Converse should be made at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kddconverse20

The deadline for paper submission is June 15, 2020 (11: 59 P.M. AoE)