Findings of the First Workshop on Simulating Conversational Intelligence
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Yvette Graham Mohammed Rameez Qureshi Haider Khalid Gerasimos Lampouras Ignacio Iacobacci Qun Liu
The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts working on open-domain
dialogue research. In this speedily advancing research area many challenges
still exist, such as learning information from conversations, engaging in
realistic and convincing simulation of human intelligence and reasoning.
SCI-CHAT follows previous workshops on open domain dialogue but with a focus on
the simulation of intelligent conversation as judged in a live human
evaluation. Models aim to include the ability to follow a challenging topic
over a multi-turn conversation, while positing, refuting and reasoning over
arguments. The workshop included both a research track and shared task. The
main goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the shared task and a link
to an additional paper that will include an in depth analysis of the shared
task results following presentation at the workshop.