The Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge

  • Seokhwan Kim ,
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  • Chulaka Gunasekara ,
  • Sungjin Lee ,
  • Adam Atkinson ,
  • Baolin Peng ,
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  • Jinchao Li ,
  • Mahmoud Adada ,
  • Minlie Huang ,
  • Luis Lastras ,
  • Jonathan K Kummerfeld ,
  • Walter S Lasecki ,
  • Chiori Hori ,
  • Anoop Cherian ,
  • Tim K Marks ,
  • Abhinav Rastogi ,
  • Xiaoxue Zang ,
  • Srinivas Sunkara ,
  • Raghav Gupta

The third Conversational AI workshop, NeurIPS |

This paper introduces the Eighth Dialog System Technology Challenge. In line with recent challenges, the eighth edition focuses on applying end-to-end dialog technologies in a pragmatic way for multi-domain task-completion, noetic response selection, audio visual scene-aware dialog, and schema-guided dialog state tracking tasks. This paper describes the task definition, provided datasets, and evaluation set-up for each track. We also summarize the results of the submitted systems to highlight the overall trends of the state-of-the-art technologies for the tasks.