Workshop Program

KDD Converse 2020 is a virtual half-day workshop. All times are in PDT
To join the workshop click on this zoom meeting link
1:00PM - 1:10PM Welcome and Introduction
1:10PM - 2:00PM
Keynote - Srinivas Bangalore
2:00PM - 2:20PM
Contributed Talk
Paper 6 - Improved Question Answering using Domain Prediction
Himani Srivastava, Prerna Khurana, Saurabh Srivastava, Vaibhav Varshney, Lovekesh Vig, Puneet Agarwal and Gautam Shroff
2:20PM - 2:50PM Coffee Break
2:50PM - 3:10PM Contributed Talk
Paper 5 - Challenges in the Evaluation of Conversational Search Systems
Gustavo Penha and Claudia Hauff
3:10PM - 4:00PM Keynote - Amanda Stent
4:00PM - 4:20PM
Contributed Talk
Paper 8 - A Fast and Robust BERT-based Dialogue State Tracker for Schema Guided Dialogue Dataset
Vahid Noroozi, Yang Zhang, Evelina Bakhturina and Tomasz Kornuta
4:20PM - 4:50PM Coffee Break
4:50PM - 5:40PM Keynote - Christopher Ré
5:40PM - 5:45PM Closing Remarks