Call for Track Participation

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


Track 2: Controllable Conversational Theme Detection



IMPORTANT DATES

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* Training data release: Jan 14th, 2025

* Test data release: April 1st, 2025

   * Submission of final results: April 8, 2025 

* Paper submission: June 1st, 2025

* Acceptance Notification: July 11th, 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)




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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