===================== 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI @ACM Multimedia 2021, October 20-24, 2021, Chengdu, China ===================== ### https://sites.google.com/view/multimodal-conversational-ai/ ### Deadline: August 10 The ACM Multimedia Workshop on Multimodal Conversational AI aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of multimodal conversational AI. Recently, conversational systems have seen a significant rise in demand due to modern commercial applications using systems such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant. The research on multimodal chatbots is a widely underexplored area, where users and the conversational agent communicate by natural language and visual data. Conversational agents are now becoming a commodity as a number of companies push for this technology. The wide use of these conversational agents exposes the many challenges in achieving more natural, human-like, and engaging conversational agents. The research community is actively addressing several of these challenges: how are visual and text data related in user utterances? How to interpret the user intent? How to encode multimodal dialog status? What are the ethical and legal aspects of conversational AI? The Multimodal Conversational AI workshop will be a forum where researchers and practitioners share their experiences and brainstorm about success and failures in the topic. It will also promote collaboration to strengthen the conversational AI community at ACM Multimedia. ### Topics of Interest - Visual conversations/dialogs - Deep learning for multimodal conversational agents - Preference elicitation in conversational agents - Conversation state tracking models and online learning - Recommendations in conversational systems - Multimodal user intent understanding - Opinion recommendation in conversational agents - Supply/demand in conversational agents for e-commerce - Reinforcement learning in conversational agents - Resources and datasets - Design and evaluation of conversational agents - User-agent legal and ethical issues in conversational systems - User-Agent experience design - Conversational systems applications, including, but not limited to, e-commerce, social-good, music, Web search, healthcare. ### Paper Submission Guidelines Papers are up to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. All submissions must be written in English and be formatted according to the ACM templates and guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. ### Timeline - Submission: August 10 - Notification: August 26 - Camera-ready copy: September 2 - Workshop: October 20 ### Organizers - Joao Magalhaes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute - Ricardo G. Sousa, Farfetch, Portugal - Carlos Santiago, ISR/IST, Portugal --- ACM Multimedia 2022 General co-Chair NOVA LINCS - Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal ############################ Unsubscribe: [log in to unmask] If you don't already have a password for the LISTSERV.ACM.ORG server, we recommend that you create one now. A LISTSERV password is linked to your email address and can be used to access the web interface and all the lists to which you are subscribed on the LISTSERV.ACM.ORG server. To create a password, visit: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?GETPW1 Once you have created a password, you can log in and view or change your subscription settings at: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1=MM-INTEREST