IWDS 2025

The 8th International Workshop on Dialog Systems

February 9 (Sunday), 2025, Nexus Resort & Spa Karambunai, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

In conjunction with the IEEE BigComp 2025 - 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing

Motivation

When people look for information or find particular services, they used to put queries into search engines and choose a desired one among candidates. Although this way of human computer interaction (HCI) makes it possible to find their desired ones much efficiently than before, now they want more convenient way. Dialog system is the one, which makes people to communicate with computers through natural language or voices. The dialog system is successfully applied to various applications, such as intelligent speaker (e.g., Amazon echo, Google home) and intelligent counsellor, courtesy of great advance of machine learning techniques. It usually consists of several cascade steps (e.g., speech to text, natural language understanding), and it is necessary to find a way of improving of the steps and effectively incorporating them. We want to discuss and share the knowledge about how to solve these issues.

Theme, Purpose, and Scope

This workshop aims to create opportunities to discuss about the state-of-the-art studies, and to share on-going works. We hope that this will enhance collaboration among the researchers related to dialog systems. There are many challenging issues, such as out-of-domain detection, distant voice recognition, and end-to-end systems. We want to discuss about how to solve such issues, and share the experiences of applying the dialog system to real-world applications.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Intelligent dialog systems
  • Chatbot systems
  • Speech recognition
  • Speech synthesis
  • Natural language understanding
  • Information extraction
  • Dialog management
  • Language resources and representation scheme for dialog systems

Paper Submission

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers, limited to 4 pages, in English according to the IEEE two-column format for conference proceedings. The author list may appear in the paper, but can be omitted if the authors want to. The direct link for paper submission is below. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee of the workshop. All accepted workshop papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library as conference proceedings.

Direct link for paper submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwds2025

Paper templates:
IEEE_MSWord_Template.doc
IEEE_Latex_Template.zip


Important Dates

※ Authors should submit their accepted papers in the Camera-Ready version according to instructions of the main conference (see here).

Submission of Workshop Papers
December 10th, 2024 (UTC -12)
Notification of Paper Acceptance
December 17th, 2024
Camera-Ready Submission
December 20th, 2024   December 31st, 2024
Author Registration
January 11th, 2025
Workshop
February 9th, 2025

Organizing Committee

Workshop Co-chairs

  • Young-Seob Jeong (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
  • Chae-Gyun Lim (KAIST, Korea)
  • Jonghwan Hyeon (KAIST, Korea)
  • Ho-Jin Choi (KAIST, Korea)

Program Committee

  • Medard Edmund Mswahili (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
  • Eun-Jin Kim (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
  • Eojin Joo (KAIST, Korea)
  • Cheoneum Park (Hanbat University, Korea)
  • Seok-Jun Buu (Gyeongsang National University, Korea)
  • Jihoon Moon (Soonchunhyang University, Korea)
  • Seung-Ho Han (KAIST, Korea)
  • Yechan Hwang (KAIST, Korea)
  • KyungTae Lim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea)
  • Sunjae Kwon (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
  • Sangjae Lee (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea)
  • Han-Gyu Kim (Naver, Korea)
  • Jingun Jung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea)
  • Young-Jun Lee (KAIST, Korea)
  • YunSeok Choi (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
  • Kyo-Joong Oh (KAIST, Korea)
  • Zae Myung Kim (University of Minnesota, Twins Cities, USA)
  • Won-Jo Lee (SAIT, Korea)
  • Jong Myoung Kim (SK Telecom, Korea)
  • Dongkun Lee (KAIST, Korea)
  • Chan-Yong Park (SK Telecom, Korea)
  • Won-Deuk Yoon (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea)
  • Namhyeok Kim (Colley Co., Ltd., Korea)
  • Jong-Min Park (Leaflyze, Korea)
  • Hyunsu Mun (BisangTech Co., Ltd., Korea)

Program

09:00 - 12:10, February 9 (Sunday), 2025

Venue: MAGIBAH 1
(Nexus Resort & Spa Karambunai, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia)

09:00 - 10:25 Session 1: Natural Language Understanding

(Session Chair: Chae-Gyun Lim (KAIST, Korea))

  • 09:00 - 09:10     Preparation & Welcome Remark
  • 09:10 - 09:35     A Quality Assurance Framework for Multimodal Assessment Datasets on AI Risk Factors
  • Seung-Ho Han
    (KAIST, Korea)
    , Jeongyun Han
    (University of Seoul, Korea)
    , Dongkun Lee
    (KAIST, Korea)
    , and Ho-Jin Choi
    (KAIST, Korea)
  • 09:35 - 10:00     An Analysis of Unsafe Responses with Magic Expressions Across Large Language Models
  • Eojin Joo
    (KAIST, Korea)
    , Chae-Gyun Lim
    (KAIST, Korea)
    , Jeongyun Han
    (University of Seoul, Korea)
    , and Ho-Jin Choi
    (KAIST, Korea)
  • 10:00 - 10:25     Exploring the Visual Perspective Taking of Vision-and-Language Model
  • Young-Jun Lee
    (KAIST, Korea)
    and Ho-Jin Choi
    (KAIST, Korea)
  • 10:25 - 10:45     Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:10 Session 2: Chatbots and Applications

(Session Chair: Jonghwan Hyeon (KAIST, Korea))

  • 10:45 - 11:10     Analytical Approach for Truthfulness Detection Using Multimodal Features: A Case Study with Vision and Audio Data
  • Jangkyum Kim
    (Sejong University, Korea)
    , Jiwon Choi
    (Sejong University, Korea)
    , Donghyeon Park
    (Sejong University, Korea)
    , and Young Dae Ko
    (Sejong University, Korea)
  • 11:10 - 11:35     Enhancing Mobile Accessibility Through Voice Input: A Hands-Free Grocery List Application
  • Karan Sota
    (SUNY Binghamton, USA)
  • 11:35 - 12:00     Personalized Conversation Management with Emotional Memory
  • Chae-Gyun Lim
    (KAIST, Korea)
    , Young-Seob Jeong
    (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
    , and Ho-Jin Choi
    (KAIST, Korea)
  • 12:00 - 12:10     Closing Remark

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to chairs Chae-Gyun Lim (rayote@kaist.ac.kr) or Young-Seob Jeong (ysjay@chungbuk.ac.kr).