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

※ This tentative schedule may be updated.

Submission of Workshop Papers
December 10th, 2024 (UTC -12)
Notification of Paper Acceptance
December 17th, 2024
Camera Ready Submission
December 20th, 2024
Author Registration
January 25th, 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

  • KyungTae Lim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea)
  • Jihoon Moon (Soonchunhyang University, Korea)
  • Seok-Jun Buu (Gyeongsang National University, Korea)
  • Sunjae Kwon (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
  • Sangjae Lee (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea)
  • Han-Gyu Kim (Naver, Korea)
  • Cheoneum Park (SK Telecom, 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)
  • Seung-Ho Han (KAIST, Korea)
  • Dongkun Lee (KAIST, Korea)
  • Yechan Hwang (KAIST, Korea)
  • Chan-Yong Park (SK Telecom, Korea)
  • Won-Deuk Yoon (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea)
  • Namhyeok Kim (Colley Co., Ltd., Korea)

Keynote

TBA

Speaker

Program

TBA

09:30 - 16:30, February 18 (Sunday), 2025

• Venue: Kamolrudi (2F, The Sukosol Hotel, Bangkok)

Part 1: Dialog Systems

※ Authors have to prepare 15 min. for their presentation (including 5 min. for Q&A).

09:30 - 10:50　Session 1: Chatbots and Natural Language Understanding

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

  • Prompting Large Language Models for Automatic Evaluation on User-specific Memory Extraction
  • Chae-Gyun Lim (KAIST, Korea)
  • DialogCC: An Automated Pipeline for Creating High-Quality Multi-modal Dialogue Datasets
  • Young-Jun Lee (KAIST, Korea)
  • Enhancing Numerical Reasoning Performance by Augmenting Distractor Numerical Values
  • Ye-Chan Hwang (KAIST, Korea)
  • Enhancing Knowledge Selection with Data Processing Based on Multiple Turns of Dialog in Knowledge-Grounded Open-Domain Conversations
  • Eojin Joo (KAIST, Korea)
  • Reducing Argument Misrecognition in Quantitative Question Answering
  • Jinsu Lim (KAIST, Korea)
  • Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30　Session 2: Information Extraction and Intelligent Applications

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

  • Research on the AI Personality
  • Young-Seob Jeong (Chungbuk National University, Korea)
  • Refining Saliency Maps Using Gaussian Mixture Model
  • Seung-Ho Han (KAIST, Korea)
  • Machine Fault Diagnosis Using EMD-Gammatone Texture Representation and A Lightweight Self-Attention SqueezeNet
  • Mahe Zabin (KAIST, Korea)
  • Enhanced Deep Electric Pole Anomaly Detection Using Generative Adversarial Network-based Data Augmentation
  • Dongkun Lee (KAIST, Korea)
  • Improving Speech Emotion Recognition via Segmental Average Pool
  • Jonghwan Hyeon (KAIST, Korea)
  • Lunch Break

Part 2: Generative AI and Education

14:00 - 15:00　Keynote Speech

(Session Chair: Young-Seob Jeong (Chungbuk National University, Korea))

  • Generative AI for Education: New Impetus for Digital Transformation in Education (50 min. + Q&A 10 min.)
  • Jeongyun Han (Korean Educational Development Institute, Korea)
  • Coffee Break

15:15 - 17:00　Panel Discussion

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

  • Educational Influence of Generative AI Technologies
  • • Moderator: Ho-Jin Choi (KAIST, Korea)
    • Panelist: Young-Seob Jeong (Chungbuk National University, Korea), Yuchae Jung (Open Cyber University of Korea, Korea), Jeongyun Han (Korean Educational Development Institute, Korea)
  • Closing Remarks

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).