**Call for Poster/Paper Presentations – SCAI: Search-Oriented Conversational AI** Free Online Event on October 8th, 2021 <https://scai.info> \ **Important dates** •    Application deadline: September 14th, 2021 (AoE) •    Author notification: September 21st, 2021 **Description** SCAI is an established venue that provides a discussion platform on Conversational AI for intelligent information access. It brings together researchers and practitioners across natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning and human-computer interaction fields. \ The goal of Search-oriented Conversational AI is to design systems that allow for a more convenient information access by means of a conversational user interface. A conversational search system should support an open-domain information-seeking dialogue in natural language that allows to retrieve and discover novel information relevant to the specific dialogue topic. Further development of Conversational Search systems requires closer integration and better information exchange between the diverse communities that are engaged in the areas of Dialogue Systems, Information Retrieval and Conversational User Interfaces. SCAI aims to bring together researchers interested in informing the design of a new generation of systems for conversational information access. SCAI 2021 will be a non-archival venue. It offers an opportunity to present on-going or recently completed research work in an interdisciplinary meeting specifically focused on search-based conversational AI.  **Topics of Interest** * Design: theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of information-seeking dialogues, properties of a mixed-initiative interaction, modeling conversational contexts. * Evaluation: question answering and summarization metrics, Wizard-of-Oz experiments, user simulation for dialogues, measuring learning outcomes of an information-seeking dialogue, faithfulness and provenance of the dialogue responses. * Applications: information-seeking dialogues for personalised education, healthcare, entertainment and knowledge-intensive work. Apply to present your work at SCAI’21 (or nominate someone else’s work) by filling out the on-line form: <https://forms.gle/HumH6Z8LuEeGp2UaA>