Call for Papers – The Ninth Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational
AI (SCAI’25)
Collocated with IJCAI 2025 (Montreal, Canada) on August 16-18, 2025
https://scai.info
Important dates
• Submission deadline: May 28, 2025 (AoE) -- extended
• Author notification: June 22, 2025
Description
SCAI is an established venue that provides a discussion platform on
Conversational AI for intelligent information access, bringing
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 more convenient information access by means of a
conversational user interface. 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 2025 offers an opportunity to present ongoing or recently
completed research work in an interdisciplinary meeting specifically
focused on search-based conversational AI. The workshop program will
include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and a
poster session.
We encourage submission for presentation of original as well as
already published papers that are relevant to the following topics:
• Design: theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of
information-seeking dialogues, properties of a mixed-initiative
interaction, modeling conversational contexts, relation to concurrent
research in dialogue systems and conversational user interfaces
• Implementation: prototypes of conversational search systems,
demonstrations and proof-of-concept implementations, as well as
lessons learned from deployed systems.
• Evaluation: evaluation of conversational search systems
including user studies, question answering and summarization metrics,
Wizard-of-Oz experiments, user simulation for dialogues, measuring
learning outcomes of an information-seeking dialogue, dialogue
analysis, faithfulness and provenance of the dialogue responses.
• Applications: information-seeking dialogues for personalised
education, healthcare, entertainment and knowledge-intensive work.
Submission Instructions
• Papers should be up to 8 pages (long) or up to 4 pages (short),
excluding references and supplementary materials.
• Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review.
• The authors are encouraged (but not required to) use the IJCAI
template for their submissions: https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit.
• Our venue is non-archival and the authors retain the right to
submit the same work to another venue for official publication, or
submit previously published work.
• The accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters.
The decision about the presentation format will be based on reviewers’
recommendation.
• Submit your work using the on-line form:
https://chairingtool.com/conferences/ijcai25-w21/main-track?role=author
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https://tuetschek.github.io
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Call for Papers – The Ninth Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational
AI (SCAI’25)
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Collocated with IJCAI 2025 (Montreal, Canada) on August 16-18, 2025
https://scai.info
Important dates
--------------
• Submission deadline: May 28, 2025 (AoE) -- extended
• Author notification: June 22, 2025
Description
--------------
SCAI is an established venue that provides a discussion platform on
Conversational AI for intelligent information access, bringing
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 more convenient information access by means of a
conversational user interface. 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 2025 offers an opportunity to present ongoing or recently
completed research work in an interdisciplinary meeting specifically
focused on search-based conversational AI. The workshop program will
include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and a
poster session.
We encourage submission for presentation of original as well as
already published papers that are relevant to the following topics:
• **Design**: theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of
information-seeking dialogues, properties of a mixed-initiative
interaction, modeling conversational contexts, relation to concurrent
research in dialogue systems and conversational user interfaces
• **Implementation**: prototypes of conversational search systems,
demonstrations and proof-of-concept implementations, as well as
lessons learned from deployed systems.
• **Evaluation**: evaluation of conversational search systems
including user studies, question answering and summarization metrics,
Wizard-of-Oz experiments, user simulation for dialogues, measuring
learning outcomes of an information-seeking dialogue, dialogue
analysis, faithfulness and provenance of the dialogue responses.
• **Applications**: information-seeking dialogues for personalised
education, healthcare, entertainment and knowledge-intensive work.
Submission Instructions
--------------
• Papers should be up to 8 pages (long) or up to 4 pages (short),
excluding references and supplementary materials.
• Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review.
• The authors are encouraged (but not required to) use the IJCAI
template for their submissions: https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit.
• Our venue is **non-archival** and the authors retain the right to
submit the same work to another venue for official publication, or
submit previously published work.
• The accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters.
The decision about the presentation format will be based on reviewers’
recommendation.
• Submit your work using the on-line form:
https://chairingtool.com/conferences/ijcai25-w21/main-track?role=author
--
https://tuetschek.github.io