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<div>Please note that submissions are non-archival. We encourage the presentation of submitted as well as ongoing work.</div>
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<div>We look forward to sharing progress and ideas with you!<br>
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>
Emily Dinan, Facebook AI<br>
Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University<br>
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI<br>
Zhou Yu, UC Davis<br>
Alborz Geramifard, Facebook AI<br>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION <br>
<a href="https://safetyforconvai.splashthat.com/" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/safeconvai</a>
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The first Safety for Conversational AI Workshop will be held virtually on <b>October 15th, 2020, 10:00am-3:00pm EDT</b>. This workshop aims to bring together relevant experts and partners in industry and academia to envision safer and better-behaved neural
conversational AI models. It is being held independently from major conferences to allow for wider participation and earlier timelines. Discussions will focus on three main tracks:<br>
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1) PROGRESS<br>
Share progress on these challenging technical and ethical research problems.<br>
2) GUIDELINES<br>
Initiate discussion with the larger community in industry and academia towards a set of guidelines when releasing such models.<br>
3) BENCHMARKS<br>
Lay the foundations for a collaborative effort to build benchmarks for testing the relative safety of conversational AI models.<br>
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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YULIA TSVETKOV, Carnegie Mellon University<br>
BARBARA GROSZ, Harvard University<br>
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ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES</div>
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<div>You are invited to submit an abstract for a short talk or poster and/or register for the workshop to participate in the discussions. If you choose to submit an abstract for a short talk, the reviewing committee will review and accept abstracts based on
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September 14, 2020: Deadline to submit an abstract for a short talk or poster.<br>
September 21, 2020: Notification of acceptance for short talks.<br>
October 7, 2020: Registration deadline for participation in discussions.<br>
October 15, 2020: Day of workshop.<br>
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To attend and submit an abstract for a poster or talk: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/safeconvai" target="_blank">
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An option to submit an abstract is included in the RSVP form.<br>
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PROGRAM CHAIRS<br>
Emily Dinan, Facebook Ai<br>
Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University<br>
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>
Emily Dinan, Facebook AI<br>
Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University<br>
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI<br>
Zhou Yu, UC Davis<br>
Alborz Geramifard, Facebook AI<br clear="all">
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(32,33,36)">Prof. Verena Rieser - </font><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/</a>
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