日本データベース学会の皆さま お世話になっております． 京都大学の馬です． BigCom2021の併設ワークショップIWDSのCFPです． 投稿〆切は10月30日です． ご投稿を検討していただければ幸いです． よろしくお願いします． CALL FOR PAPERSThe 4th International Workshop on Dialog Systems (IWDS 2021) January 17, 2021, Bangkok, Thailand Jeju Island, Korea (Online) In conjunction with the IEEE BigComp 2021 - 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing <http://www.bigcomputing.org/> *NOTE: Presentations can be done in offline, video, or Zoom. (That is, all the offline presentations will be transmitted to the online site in real-time for online participants).*Motivation When people look for information or find particular services, they used to put queries into search engines and choose a desired one among candidates. Although this way of human computer interaction (HCI) makes it possible to find their desired ones much efficiently than before, now they want more convenient way. Dialog system is the one, which makes people to communicate with computers through natural language or voices. The dialog system is successfully applied to various applications, such as intelligent speaker (e.g., Amazon echo, Google home) and intelligent counsellor, courtesy of great advance of machine learning techniques. It usually consists of several cascade steps (e.g., speech to text, natural language understanding), and it is necessary to find a way of improving of the steps and effectively incorporating them. We want to discuss and share the knowledge about how to solve these issues. Theme, Purpose, and Scope This workshop aims to create opportunities to discuss about the state-of-the-art studies, and to share on-going works. We hope that this will enhance collaboration among the researchers related to dialog systems. There are many challenging issues, such as out-of-domain detection, distant voice recognition, and end-to-end systems. We want to discuss about how to solve such issues, and share the experiences of applying the dialog system to real-world applications. We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Intelligent dialog systems - Chatbot systems - Speech recognition - Speech synthesis - Natural language understanding - Information extraction - Dialog management - Language resources and representation scheme for dialog systems ------------------------------ PAPER SUBMISSION All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers, 4 pages, in English according to the IEEE two-column format for conference proceedings. The author list may appear in the paper, but can be omitted if the authors want to. The direct link for paper submission is below. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee of the workshop. All accepted workshop papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library as conference proceedings. Direct link for paper submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iwds2021 Paper templates: IEEE_MSWord_Template.doc <https://sigai.or.kr/workshop/bigcomp/2021/iwds/templates/IEEE_MSWord_Template.doc> IEEE_Latex_Template.zip <https://sigai.or.kr/workshop/bigcomp/2021/iwds/templates/IEEE_Latex_Template.zip> ------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATESSubmission of Workshop PapersSeptember 30, 2020 *October 31, 2020 (UTC -12)*Notification of Paper AcceptanceNovember 23, 2020Camera Ready SubmissionDecember 7, 2020Author RegistrationDecember 14, 2020WorkshopJanuary 17, 2021 ------------------------------ ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEEOrganizing Committee - Chae-Gyun Lim, Ph.D Candidate, (KAIST, Korea) - Jonghwan Hyeon, Ph.D Candidate, (KAIST, Korea) - Young-Seob Jeong, Professor, (Soonchunhyang University, Korea) - Qiang Ma, Professor, (Kyoto University, Japan) - Ho-Jin Choi, Professor, (KAIST, Korea) Program Committee - Sheng Li, Researcher (NICT, Japan) - Takayuki Yumoto, Professor (University of Hyogo, Japan) - Jianwei Zhang, Professor (Iwate University, Japan) - Jiyoung Woo, Professor (Soonchunhyang University, Korea) - Dongkun Lee, Researcher (KAIST, Korea) - Seung-Ho Han, Researcher (KAIST, Korea) - Zae Myung Kim, Researcher (NAVER LABS Europe, France) ---- MA Qiang (馬 強） 京都大学大学院情報学研究科 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University ----