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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