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starting the next session
it's a special session on
chat bots and the conversational agents
so this is the second
i watch at special session
on chart button conversation agents
and here you can see the what chat organising committee
i'm one of the organising committee member reach your if you guys not colour and
we have three as a organise organising committee members wrong and about file on twelve
county who are not opportunity here but the
yes
and you can also sees task organising committee members and also senior steering committee members
so just a little bit
remark
on the this watch it specialization so this is the background
so we as seeing
events
recently events created to chat-oriented dialogue systems so we had the special sessions
on chat bots and allegations in at the spa conferences
and those so i'm one of the organizers of several workshops you at two
chat-oriented dialogue systems in japan
and those of you know that there is a an extra challenge and also a
conversational intelligence times going at nips this year
so we have seen a lot of activities at the chat-oriented dialogue systems was that's
why we started this what chapped series as workshop and also special sessions at several
common sees that we had the first workshop at a wreck then second workshop but
i da last year
and
this year we had the one special session at the i to be sdss and
this is the second special session at seek a dial
and other objectives of this watch at this to explore the state-of-the-art in chat-oriented dialogue
and related areas
and
we a actually doing a collaborate the report to collect a dialogue data so collect
a chart oriented dialogue data that can be made available for research purposes and also
develop a framework for the automatic evaluation no chat-oriented data
i'm
i will talk about this task data but that just the briefly to tell you
about this is that we have three phases for data collection in this you have
task and watch at
so we collecting chat data and we also evaluating the data with subjective evaluation criterion
and those so we proposing segregated matrix to reproduce the human subjective evaluation results
and we are currently focusing on these tasks one two
okay so i'll talk about the shared task later at the end of this yes
add in end of the special session but the before that i just go over
this technical program or watch at special session today
from now on
and there are four papers accepted from a total of a fifteen summations do this
specialisation the complete it was very competitive
and the we had one shot paper yesterday and we have three papers three long
papers that would be presented in decision
so we have three papers
as you can see on the screen
and the technical program today is we i'm just introducing the special session and a
we have three paper presentations
of long papers
and i really
animation
a little bit about this you have task update to report
and
at the end of the session we have a wrap up discussion session and this
we want to discuss some future plans with you about chatbox agents
okay so without to much how do i'd like to will come the first speaker
of this system