WCIS 2019: 1st Workshop on Conversational Interaction Systems

The first workshop on Conversational Interaction Systems is held in Paris, France on July 25th, 2019, co-located with the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR). The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and future of conversational agents and interactive systems. The workshop has an exciting program that spans a number of subareas including: multi-modal conversational interfaces, dialogue accessibility, and scaling such systems. The program includes eight invited talks, a lively panel discussion on emerging topics, and presentation of original research papers.