NII Shonan Meeting No. 256: Conversational Grounding for Real-world Human-AI Interactions
📅 Monday, 1 March 2027 → Thursday, 4 March 2027 in 227 days
NII research meeting on grounding, memory and multimodality in real-world conversational AI.
NII Shonan Meeting No. 256, “Conversational Grounding for Real-world Human-AI Interactions”, takes place from 1 to 4 March 2027 at the Shonan Village Center in Hayama, Japan, with check-in on 28 February. Like other meetings in the Shonan series, it is an in-person research gathering rather than an open conference.
The meeting addresses how AI systems establish common ground in dialogue, arguing that grounding is essential for productive and coherent conversations with people. Discussion spans conversational, visual and knowledge grounding, with particular attention to large language models and their difficulties with factual accuracy and situational reasoning.
It is organised by Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC/AIST, Japan), Justine Cassell (INRIA, France) and David Traum (ICT/USC, USA). As a Shonan meeting the format is small and participation-based, so a public participant list is not published; researchers interested in attending should approach the organisers via the official page.
