[iva] 1st Safety for ConvAI Workshop (online)

[Verena Rieser]

SAFETY FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI WORKSHOP
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
https://tinyurl.com/safeconvai<https://safetyforconvai.splashthat.com/>

The first Safety for Conversational AI Workshop will be held virtually on October 15th, 2020, 10:00am-3:00pm EDT. 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:

1) PROGRESS
Share progress on these challenging technical and ethical research problems.
2) GUIDELINES
Initiate discussion with the larger community in industry and academia towards a set of guidelines when releasing such models.
3) BENCHMARKS
Lay the foundations for a collaborative effort to build benchmarks for testing the relative safety of conversational AI models.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

YULIA TSVETKOV, Carnegie Mellon University
BARBARA GROSZ, Harvard University

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES

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 relevance to the focus of the workshop.

September 14, 2020: Deadline to submit an abstract for a short talk or poster.
September 21, 2020: Notification of acceptance for short talks.
October 7, 2020: Registration deadline for participation in discussions.
October 15, 2020: Day of workshop.

To attend and submit an abstract for a poster or talk: https://tinyurl.com/safeconvai
An option to submit an abstract is included in the RSVP form.

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Emily Dinan, Facebook Ai
Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Emily Dinan, Facebook AI
Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University
Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI
Zhou Yu, UC Davis
Alborz Geramifard, Facebook AI

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Prof. Verena Rieser - https://sites.google.com/site/verenateresarieser/

HWU NLP research group - https://sites.google.com/view/nlplab/
Interaction Lab - https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/

School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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