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<p class="MsoCommentText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">The</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> 1st
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">IJCAI-PRICAI Workshop ROBOTDIAL 2020<br>
Robot Dialogues - Dialogue Models for Human-Robot Interaction<br>
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CALL FOR PAPERS: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://sap.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ijcai2020/robotdial/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">http://sap.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ijcai2020/robotdial/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt"><br>
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In conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, Yokohama, Japan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoCommentText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">==== Important Notice ====<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:red;background:white">Concerning the novel coronavirus pandemic,
</span><span style="color:red">the ROBOTDIAL workshop organization will follow the guidelines of the main conference IJCAI-PRICAI, which will take place in some form (see
</span><a href="https://www.ijcai20.org/">https://www.ijcai20.org/</a> <span style="color:red">
for updates on IJCAI-PRICAIs planning)</span><span style="color:red">. <br>
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Like the main conference, we will keep open the possibility for an in-person meeting, but also make plans for an online workshop. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and the possibility for a special journal issue based on the
presented papers will be discussed at the workshop. We will notify the authors and the community accordingly. If you have any questions concerning the workshop or submissions, please contact
</span><span style="color:red">or contact the organisers at: </span><a href="mailto:robotdial2020@easychair.org">robotdial2020@easychair.org</a></p>
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==== Important Dates ====</p>
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Title and abstract deadline <span style="color:red">(extended)</span>: <s>April 20</s>
<span style="color:red">May 11</span><br>
Final submission deadline <span style="color:red">(extended)</span>: <s>April 27</s><span style="color:red"> May 18</span><br>
Author notification <span style="color:red">(extended)</span>: <s>May 22</s><span style="color:red"> May 29</span><br>
Camera ready due: June 3<br>
Workshop day: July 11-13 (actual date to be determined later)<br>
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Authors should submit their paper title and abstracts by <s>April 20</s> <span style="color:red">
May 11 </span>and can revise their paper up until the final submission deadline on
<s>April 27</s> <span style="color:red">May 18</span>. Paper submission is through EasyChair and uses the paper format for IJCAI. Short papers are a maximum of 4 pages and long papers are a maximum of 8 pages, excluding references. At the workshop, we will
discuss the possibility of editing a special issue of a journal based on the presented papers.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">==== Overview ==== <br>
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Large communities in AI, robotics and interaction technology already work on spoken language-based human-robot interaction. Their different starting points and assumptions call for discussions, exchange of ideas and more integrated approaches to implementations
and modelling of spoken dialogues on robot platforms.<br>
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This one-day workshop offers a platform for researchers to discuss and elaborate their views at the intersection of AI, robotics and spoken dialogue modelling. Sophisticated interaction models and implementations are critical in this endeavour but are not often
explicitly addressed. Dialogue modelling and dialogue system implementations, on their part, are often developed without sufficiently considering how the models could be used in an embodied robotic system which also interacts with the environment. The workshop
offers a platform for discussions concerning appropriate architectures and representations, in order to build a joint understanding of the aspects and features that address the pertinent questions in the multidisciplinary field of robot dialogues.<br>
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We invite submissions for this workshop based on (but not limited to) the following topics:<br>
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- models of human-robot interactions and dialogue<br>
- multimodal human-robot dialogue<br>
- non-verbal communication in human-robot dialogue<br>
- language modeling for robot interactions<br>
- robots and unstructured conversation<br>
- user studies with human-robot dialogue<br>
- paralinguistics for robot interaction<br>
- cognitive architectures for spoken dialogues<br>
- representations for interaction and dialogue modelling</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For further information, please check the workshop website or contact the organisers at:<br>
<a href="mailto:robotdial2020@easychair.org">robotdial2020@easychair.org</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking forward to seeing you in Yokohama!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Organisers:<br>
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Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan)<br>
Martin Heckmann (Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany)<br>
Divesh Lala (University of Kyoto, Japan)<br>
Pierre Lison (Norsk Regnesentral, Norway)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Programme Committee:<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Gerard Bailly (GIPSA-Lab)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Timo Baumann(University of Hamburg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Koji Inoue (Kyoto University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Casey Kennington (Boise State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Dorothea Kolossa (Ruhr University
</span>Bochum<span lang="EN-US">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Valia Kordoni (Humboldt University Berlin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (Saarland University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Wolfgang Minker (University of Ulm)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Roger Moore (The University of Sheffield)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Alexandros Papangelis (Uber AI)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">David Schlangen (University of Potsdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Svetlana Stoyanchev (Toshiba Research Europe)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Serge Thill (Radboud University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">David Traum (USC ICT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Stefan Ultes (Daimler AG)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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