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Question Answering for Complex Domains (QACD'2012)
9th December 2012, Mumbai, India (collocated with 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics) https://sites.google.com/site/qacd2012/ Significant progress has been made in building Question Answering systems that are focussed on providing precise answers to specific questions in one shot. In many real world situations, however, the information need may be specified vaguely and some sort of interaction may be required for a complete specification of the problem. Further, the correct answer of the question may be a procedure or passage rather than a factoid. For example, someone having trouble with battery life for her smartphone may express a query as ‘battery dying too soon for my XYZ phone’. The intent of the user here, obviously, is to seek a resolution to her problem. The resolution in question may be a procedure consisting of a sequence of steps. In order to recommend the correct resolution, a system may first have to engage in a dialog with the user to ascertain all the symptoms and match the correct resolution (‘answer’). In this workshop, we are looking to explore such advanced QA systems that seek to resolve more general user problems in an interactive manner. We are specifically interested in the problem of rapidly bootstrapping such QA systems with limited data annotation. We invite researchers to submit papers discussing techniques for rapid annotation of Q/A pairs, information extraction, machine learning and interactive dialog for building such systems. The workshop topics include but are not limited to: Semi-automated data collection for building QA systems Crowdsourcing techniques applied to building QA systems Learning apriori or on the fly domain models for QA systems Information Extraction of problem resolutions from text Dialog systems for interactive question answering - clarification sub-dialogues, error correcting dialogues Building dialogue models using conversation transcripts System descriptions of large QA systems Evaluation: user centered evaluation, percent of cognitive load compared to search, effectiveness of interaction, quality of results Submission Guidelines Authors are required to provide a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their papers on or before September 30th, 2012 (11:59pm Samoa time, UTC-11). The submission link is https://www.softconf.com/coling2012/QASPR14/ For this workshop, the maximum length of a manuscript is 14 (A5 sized) pages plus additional 2 pages for references, and should report original unpublished research. Papers must conform to official COLING 2012 style guidelines. Please use the following style files for formatting your submissions: Latex style files, Microsoft Word style files. Reviewing: Each long/short paper will be reviewed by three/two members from the program committee. The final selection will be made by the committee based on the reports of the reviewers. We will follow a double blind reviewing policy. Therefore, all submissions should be anonymous. Please, do not put any information that can potentially reveal the identity of the author. Dual submission policy: Authors can submit papers that are under review or has been submitted to another conference/workshop. However, upon acceptance of the paper, the authors have to decide whether they want to present the paper at QACD or another forum. Presentation and Participation: At least one of the authors MUST register for the workshop to ensure the inclusion of the paper in the proceedings. It is also expected that at least one author for each accepted submission personally attends and presents the work at the workshop. There will be both oral and poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be decided later based on the suggestion of the program committee and has nothing to do with the technical quality of the paper. Keynotes Prof. Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~oard/ Important Dates 30th September, 2012 (11:59pm Samoa time, UTC-11): Paper submission deadline 31st October, 2012: Paper accept/reject notification 15th November, 2012: Camera ready paper due 9th December, 2012: Workshop (schedule to be uploaded soon) Conference Committees Organizing Committee: Nanda Kambhatla, IBM Research - India Sachindra Joshi, IBM Research - India Ganesh Ramakrishnan, IIT Bombay Kiran Kate, IBM Research - Singapore Priyanka Agrawal, IBM Research - India Program Committee Raghavendra Udupa, Microsoft Research, India Doug Oard, University of Maryland, College Park Carolyn Rose, CMU Indrajit Bhattacharya, IISc Li Haizhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Cong Gao, NTU, Singapore Sutanu Chakraborti, IIT Madras Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University Balaraman Ravindran, IIT Madras Vasudeva Varma, IIIT Hyderabad Ullas Nambiar, EMC India Shourya Roy, Xerox Research, India Radhika Mamidi, IIIT Hyderabad Eric Brown, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center For any queries, please contact us at : 2012qacd at gmail dot com |
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