The Twelfth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC12)
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Call for Track Participation
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We are sending the second call for participation in The 12th dialogue system technology challenge. The challenge periods are fixed and we look forward to your participation!
Website: https://sites.google.com/dstc.community/dstc-12/home
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Background
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The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as "Dialog System Technology Challenge" to cover a wider variety of dialog-related problems.
For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and selected the following two parallel tracks by peer-reviews. Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government):
Track 1: Dialog System Evaluation: Dimensionality, Language, Culture and Safety
See track website here.
Track 2: Controllable Conversational Theme Detection
Training data release: Jan 14th, 2025
Test data release: April 18th, 2025
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Training data release: Jan 14th, 2025
* Test data release: April 18th, 2025
* Submission of final results: April 25th, 2025
* Paper submission: June 1st, 2025
* Acceptance Notification: July 14th, 2025
* Camera-ready submission: July 28th, 2025
* Workshop: August 28th, 2025 (Venue: SIGDial)
DSTC12 Track Organizers
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Track 1: John Mendonça (INESC-ID/IST, Portugal), Lining Zhang (New York University, USA), Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Isabel Trancoso (INESC-ID/IST, Portugal), João Sedoc (New York University, USA), Luis F. D'Haro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Track 2: Igor Shalyminov, Hang Su, Jason Cai, James Gung, Raphael Shu, Jake Vincent, Saab Mansour (Amazon)
SUBMISSION SITE
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You will submit the paper to the OpenReview system here.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
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The submissions must follow the formatting guidelines for ACL-23. All submissions must be anonymous and conform to ACL standards for double-blind review. The papers may consist of up to 8 pages of technical content plus unlimited additional pages for references and appendices following the ACL format.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair: Behnam Hedayatnia (Amazon)
Workshop Chairs: Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen (NTU), Chen Zhang (NUS)
Publication Chair: Raghav Gupta (Google)
Publicity Chair: Michel Galley (Microsoft)
CONTACT
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