Humans conversing naturally with machines is a staple of science fiction. Building agents capable of mutually coordinating their states and actions via communication, in conjunction with human agents, would be one of the greatest engineering feats of human history. In addition to the tremendous economic potential of this technology, the ability to converse appears intimately related to the overall goal of AI. 

Although dialogue has been an active area within the linguistics and NLP communities for decades, the wave of optimism in the machine learning community has inspired increased interest from researchers, companies, and foundations.  The NLP community has enthusiastically embraced and innovated neural information processing systems, resulting in substantial relevant activity published outside of NIPS.  The goal of this forum is increased interaction (dialogue!) between these communities at NIPS to accelerate creativity and progress.

Location & Timing

Schedule
The talks are organized into 3 themed sections:
  • "Building Complete Systems": 8:30-11:30
  • "Leveraging Linguistics": 1:00-3:50
  • "Modeling Techniques": 3:50-6:30
NIPS 2016
Saturday 10 December 2016, 8:00-18:30
​Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona
Barcelona SPAIN 


Call For Papers

Key Dates
  • The papers should be in NIPS (blind) submission format.
  • The paper should not exceed more than 4 pages (including references).
  • Submit to: easychair 
  • The authors of all the accepted papers will be expected to give a 20 minute talk (15 for the talk + 5 min for questions) and participate in a panel session.
  • Accepted papers will be displayed on the website.
  • There will be no posters.
  • 10/23/2016: Submissions Due (midnight PST)
  • 11/14/2016: Acceptance Notification
Organizers
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Hal Daume III
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Paul Mineiro
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Amanda Stent
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Jason Weston