Call for DSTC10 Track Proposals

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The Tenth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC10)

Call for Track Proposals

Website: https://dstc9.dstc.community/calls/call-for-dstc10-track-proposals

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Following on the success of the DSTC shared tasks since 2013, the DSTC organizing committees would like to invite track proposals for the 10th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC10) which will be held in 2021.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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The challenge will consist of 3-4 tracks on the dialog research problems including, but not restricted to, the following topics:

* End-to-end dialog systems

* Dialog state tracking

* Dialog policy learning

* Spoken language understanding

* Natural language generation for dialog systems

* Multi-lingual dialog processing

* Multi-modal dialog processing

* Dialog evaluation

* Any other dialog-related tasks

PROPOSAL CONTENT

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Track proposals should be about two (2) pages of main contents including the following:

* A title and a brief description of the proposed track

* A brief description of the datasets

* A brief description of the evaluation methods

* The names and full contact information of the track organizers

Track organizers are encouraged also to provide examples of input and output data as supplementary materials.

SUBMISSION

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Track proposals should be submitted to the DSTC distribution list at list@dstc.community no later than January 27, 2021. PDF format is preferred.

PRESENTATION

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The organizers of every submitted proposal are invited to present their track details at DSTC10 planning session scheduled in DSTC9 Workshop which will be held as an AAAI-20 Workshop in February 2021.

IMPORTANT DATES

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* January 27, 2021: Track Proposal Submission Deadline

* February, 2021: DSTC10 Planning Session @ DSTC9 Workshop

* March 8, 2021: Feedback to proposers and discussion

* March 31, 2021: Track Acceptance Notification

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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General chair: Koichiro Yoshino (RIKEN)

Workshop chairs: Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen (NTU), Paul Crook (Facebook)

Publication chairs: Satwik Kottur (Facebook), Jinchao Li (Microsoft)

Publicity chairs: Behnam Hedayatnia (Amazon), Seungwhan (Shane) Moon (Facebook)

CONTACT

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Please feel free to post any question or comment to the DSTC mailing list list@dstc.community.

To join the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/join.