Accepted Papers

SeqDialN: Sequential Visual Dialog Network in Joint Visual-Linguistic Representation Space
Liu Yang | Fanqi Meng | Xiao Liu | Ming-Kuang Daniel Wu | Vicent Ying | James Xu

A Template-guided Hybrid Pointer Network for Knowledge-based Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
Dingmin Wang | Ziyao Chen | Wanwei He | Li Zhong | Yunzhe Tao | Min Yang

Automatic Learning Assistant in Telugu
Meghana Bommadi | Shreya Terupally | Radhika Mamidi

Combining Open Domain Question Answering with a Task-Oriented Dialog System
Jan Nehring | Nils Feldhus | Harleen Kaur | Akhyar Ahmed

CAiRE in DialDoc21: Data Augmentation for Information Seeking Dialogue System
Yan Xu | Etsuko Ishii | Genta Indra Winata | Zhaojiang Lin | Andrea Madotto | Zihan Liu | Peng Xu | Pascale Fung

Technical Report on Shared Task in DialDoc21
Jiapeng Li | Mingda Li | Longxuan Ma | Wei-Nan Zhang | Ting Liu

Cascaded Span Extraction and Response Generation for Document-Grounded Dialog
Nico Daheim | David Thulke | Christian Dugast | Hermann Ney

Ensemble ALBERT and RoBERTa for Span Prediction in Question Answering
Sony Bachina | Spandana Balumuri | Sowmya Kamath S

WeaSuLπ: Weakly Supervised Dialogue Policy Learning: Reward Estimation for Multi-turn Dialogue
Anant Khandelwal

Summary-Oriented Question Generation for Informational Queries
Xusen Yin | Li Zhou | Kevin Small | Jonathan May

Document-Grounded Goal-Oriented Dialogue Systems on Pre-Trained Language Model with Diverse Input Representation
Boeun Kim | Dohaeng Lee | Sihyung Kim | Yejin Lee | Jin-Xia Huang | Oh-Woog Kwon | Harksoo Kim

Team JARS: DialDoc Subtask 1 - Improved Knowledge Identification with Supervised Out-of-Domain Pretraining
Sopan Khosla | Justin Lovelace | Ritam Dutt | Adithya Pratapa

Building Goal-oriented Document-grounded Dialogue Systems
Xi Chen | Faner Lin | Yeju Zhou | Kaixin Ma | Jonathan Francis | Eric Nyberg | Alessandro Oltramari

Agenda Pushing in Email to Thwart Phishing
Hyundong Cho | Genevieve Bartlett | Marjorie Freedman

Can I Be of Further Assistance? Using Unstructured Knowledge Access to Improve Task-oriented Conversational Modeling
Di Jin | Seokhwan Kim | Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Call for Papers

We welcome submissions of original work as long or short papers as well as non-archival papers. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop.

Topics of interest
We encourage submissions from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
  • Document-grounded dialogue systems
  • Conversational machine reading comprehension
  • Machine reading comprehension / contextual QA / sequential QA over documents
  • Conversational search among domain documents
  • Topical chat based on associated documents
  • Parsing semi-structured document content for sequential QA or dialogue / table reading
  • Policy learning for document-guided dialogue agents
  • Task-oriented knowledge-grounded multimodal dialogue
    • task-oriented situated dialogue
    • task-oriented domain-knowledge-grounded VQA
    • task-oriented video-based dialogue
  • Evaluations for document-grounded dialogue
  • Transfer learning for document-grounded dialogue systems on low-resource domains
  • Summarization of document-grounded dialogues
  • Model interpretation of document-grounded dialogues
Submission Details

Submission tracks:
There will be following tracks: the main research track ("regular long paper", "regular short paper") and technical system track (shared task).

Formatting Guidelines:
We accept long (eight pages plus unlimited references) and short (four pages plus unlimited references) papers, which should conform to ACL submission information.

Non-Archival Submissions:
The accepted papers can opt to be non-archival, i.e., the work could be published elsewhere before or after the workshop.

Review Process
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. The reviewing process will be double-blinded at the level of the reviewers. Authors are responsible for anonymizing the submissions

Important Dates

  • Workshop Paper Due Date: April 26, 2021 (AoE)   → May 6, 2021 (AoE)
  • Notification of Acceptance: May 28, 2021 (AoE)   → June 1, 2021 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready papers due: June 7, 2021 (AoE)
  • Workshop Dates: August 5, 2021