Workshop on Directions in Automatic Dialog Processing

这次研讨会的目的是提供一个论坛，讨论对话研究的当前方向，特别是评估对话处理领域的最新技术状况，并确定推动该领域研究的关键主题和方向。研究的进展往往依赖于一个共同的基础设施，其中包括工具和语料库、评估技术以及就有效的研究范式达成一些共识。因此，讲习班的成果之一将是一套关于发展和支持基础设施以及鼓励共享研究范例和评价方法的建议。此时举办讲习班的动机是需要确立对话作为人与人和人与计算机交流的核心要素的作用，并确定支持该领域研究所需的资源。

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of current directions in dialog research, specifically to assess the current state of the art in the area of dialogue processing and to identify key themes and directions that are driving research in the field. Progress in research often relies on a common infrastructure that includes tools and corpora, evaluation techniques, as well as some consensus on effective research paradigms. Thus one of the outcomes of the workshop will be a set of recommendations for developing and supporting infrastructure and encouraging sharable research paradigms and evaluation methodologies. The motivation to hold a workshop at this time is the need to establish the role of dialog as a core element in human-human and human-computer communication and to identify the resources that are needed to support research in the area.