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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2nd International Workshop on Dialogue, Explanation and Argumentation in Human Agent
Interaction DEXA-HAI-2020</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The International Workshop on Dialogue, Explanation and Argumentation in Human-Agent
Interaction (DEXA HAI 2020) will focus on the approaches, concepts and applications relevant to supporting dialogue and explainability in the context of human interaction with agent-based systems.</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The workshop will focus on the following questions:</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How can we develop methods to facilitate dialogue between humans and agents?</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How can we derive arguments given such dialogues?</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How can we explain the decisions made by intelligent systems; and</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How can we support humans in interacting with such systems?</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This workshop will particularly cover the use of computational argumentation and
argumentation-based dialogue approaches to answer these questions, but will also consider natural language processing work on dialogue, and any work which fits into the ``explainability'' theme.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The workshop will bring together researchers from different application domains
with the common theme of dialogue and explanation in interactive agent-based systems, as well as computational argumentation in the same theme. We would like to:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Explore the different approaches to dialogue in interactive human-agent systems;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Investigate methods or approaches to promoting explainability of agent-based decisions
in interactive human-agent systems;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Explore the application of argumentation-based approaches to supporting dialogue
in interactive human-agent systems;</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Investigate how explainability can be evaluated in the human-agent context.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions are in the format of long papers (7 pages + 1 page references) or short
papers (4 pages + 1 page references).</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Both long and short papers should be formatted according to ECAI guidelines and
submitted electronically through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dexahai2020).</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Deadline for paper submission: March 10, 2020</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Final decisions to authors: April 8, 2020</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Camera-ready papers: April 22, 2020</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- Workshop: June 08, 2020</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Simon Parsons - University of Lincoln, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Elizabeth Sklar - University of Lincoln, UK</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Isabel Sassoon - King's College London, UK</span></p>
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