SCAI — Search-Oriented Conversational AI

WWW'19 special

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Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI) - WWW’19 Special

at The Web Conference 2019, San Francisco, USA, May 14 2019, 9:00–12:30.

Click here to go to the main page of the SCAI series.

More and more information is found and consumed in a conversational form rather than using traditional search engines. Chatbots, personal assistants in our phones and eyes-free devices are being used increasingly more for different purposes, including information retrieval and exploration. On the other side, information retrieval empowers dialogue systems to answer questions and to get context for assisting the user in her tasks. With the recent success of deep learning in different areas of natural language processing, this appears to be the right foundation to power search conversationalization. Yet, we believe more can be done for theory and practice of conversation-based search and search-based dialogues.

This workshop aims to bring together ML and NLP researchers on one hand and Web Search/IR specialists on the other hand to lay the groundwork for collaboration on search-oriented conversational AI and establish future directions.

The 1st edition of the workshop was co-located with International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2017).

The 2nd edition of the workshop was co-located with the Conference on Emperical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018).

The 4th edition will be held together with the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19) in August 2019.

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