Svitlana Vakulenko
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The 6th edition of the Search-Oriented Conversational AI workshop (SCAI 2021) was organised as a discussion platform on conversational AI for intelligent information access. The workshop was designed to be multidisciplinary, bringing together researchers and practitioners across the fields of natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval (IR), machine learning (ML) and human-computer interaction (HCI). The workshop included four sessions featuring invited talks, a separate poster session, and a session discussing the results of a shared task on conversational question answering (SCAI-QReCC).
Date: 8 October, 2021.
Website: https://scai.info.
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