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