CONVERSATIONS 2017: An International Workshop on Chatbot Research and Design

摘要

Conversational interfaces or natural language interaction is the next frontier in the development of ubiquitous data and services. This is particularly seen in the field of chatbots, that is, "machine agents serving as natural language user interfaces to data and service providers"1. While chatbots or conversational agents have been a topic of research for decades2, recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have sparked renewed interest in chatbots3.