This workshop covers challenges related to continual improvement of Spoken Language Systems such as conversational AI agents.
LifeLongNLP 2020 is the second LifeLongNLP workshop. The programme and proceedings of the previous edition, which was held at ASRU 2019, can be found here.
The 2nd workshop on Life-long Learning for Spoken Language Systems invites papers that discuss challenges in a lifelong process of a natural language system, where new users or functionalities are added, and existing functionalities are modified. For example, in conversational agents, it’s common to add new functionalities, new languages to the existing system. In machine translation systems, it’s common to improve performance related to new users, demographics. Improving such systems often require updating training data, and statistical models to account for data distribution shifts. This workshop invites submission addressing research problems related to continuous improvement of spoken language based NLP systems. This event will be co-located with AACL 2020.
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
Please submit your paper using Softconf: https://www.softconf.com/aacl-ijcnlp2020/LifeLongNLP/user/
Format: Submissions must be in PDF format, anonymized for review, written in English and follow the AACL2020 formatting requirements http://aacl2020.org/calls/papers/#paper-submission-and-templates.
Length : Submissions consist of up to eight pages of content. There is no limit on the number of pages for references. There is no extra space for appendices. There is no explicit short paper track, but you should feel free to submit your paper regardless of its length. Reviewers will be instructed not to penalize papers for being short.
Dual Submission: We do not allow dual submissions. Please refer to AACL guidelines.