[Corpora-List] CfP 3 rd Workshop on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

From: Arne Jönsson (arnjo@ida.liu.se)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 13:08:00 MET

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    3 rd IJCAI Workshop on
    KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

    August 10, 2003
    Acapulco, Mexico

    Workshop web page http://www.ida.liu.se/~nlplab/ijcai-ws-03/

     Description of the Workshop

    The workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue System
    will focus on the role and use of ontologies to develop flexible,
    adaptive, user-friendly, and enjoyable multi-modal dialogue systems. We
    encourage both papers presenting successful use of ontologies as well
    papers on potential drawbacks (or challenges).

    This is the third workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
    Dialogue System. The first workshop was organised at IJCAI in Stockholm
    in 1999 IJCAI in Stockholm in 1999. The second workshop was held at
    IJCAI 2001 in Seattle and continued along the same lines.

    Topics addressed in this workshop include, but are not limited to:

    * Techniques for extending dialogue systems' intelligence through rich
    semantic modelling as realized by building large ontologies, including
    how to improve responses with the aid of ontologies.
    * Representations of ontologies; XML, RDF, metatagging; database formats.
    * Investigations on multimodal interaction, e.g. what properties are
    important for an acceptance of multimodal interaction from the users.
    * Development and maintenance of shared knowledge sources and especially
    issues on the dynamic nature of the information sources demanding means
    for automatic update, and the fact that some knowledge sources are shared.
    * Generality vs specificity of the ontology: applicability to various
    applications.
    * Techniques for automatic construction of ontologies.
    * Techniques for automatic, semi-automatic or dynamic updates of
    ontologies for new tasks and domains.
    * Considerations on how to merge several ontologies on the one hand or
    automatically extend ontologies on the other.
    * Dialogue systems that utilise a domain ontology and ontology-based
    document processing.
    * Extending ontology-based Q&A systems to allow for connected dialogue.
    * Architectures for systems combining dialogue management and document
    processing.
    * Investigations of how a domain ontology can be used by the different
    modules in a dialogue system.

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    Who should attend

    This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners
    that work on the development of communication models that support robust
    and efficient interaction in natural language, both for commercial
    dialogue systems and in basic research.

    It should be of interest also for anyone studying dialogue and
    multimodal interfaces and how to coordinate different information
    sources. This involves theoretical as well as practical research, e.g.
    empirical evaluations of usability, formalization of dialogue phenomena
    and development of intelligent interfaces for various applications, not
    excluding such areas as Robotics.

    The workshop will encourage the participation of both system builders
    and theoretically oriented researchers, thus creating a forum for
    discussion across vocational and disciplinary borders. While taking
    practical applications and implemented dialogue systems as our point of
    departure, we emphasize the potential contributions of theoretical and
    empirical research: applications are the best testbeds for evaluating
    the usefulness and originality of theories and ideas. There is a certain
    lack of communication between theorists and system builders, and the
    workshop aims at creating an atmosphere that allows for a productive
    interaction between these two groups.

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    Workshop format

    The workshop will be kept small, with a maximum of 40 participants.
    Preference will be given to active participants selected on the basis of
    their submitted papers. According to IJCAI rules, all workshop attendees
    must register for the main conference.

    Each paper will be given ample time for discussion, more than what is
    customary at a conference. As said above, we encourage contributions of
    a critical or comparative nature that provide fuel for discussion. We
    also invite people to share their experiences of implementing and
    coordinating knowledge modules in their dialogue systems, and
    integrating dialogue components to other applications.

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    Submission Instructions

    Potential participants are invited to submit extended abstracts on the
    topics outlined above. Submissions should be no longer than 6 (six)
    pages exclusive of references, single spaced, and be in line with the
    IJCAI-style <http://www.ijcai-03.org/1024/html/entrada.html>.

    Electronic submissions (in ps or pdf format) should be sent to:
    <mailto:ijcaiws@ida.liu.se>ijcaiws@ida.liu.se

    The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which
    will be distributed to each participant.

    Note: Participants are expected to register for the main IJCAI
    conference in addition to the workshop.

    Important Dates and Deadlines

       * Deadline for the submission of full papers: 7 March, 2003
       * Notification of acceptance/rejection: 2 April, 2003
       * Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: 21 May, 2003

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    Organizing Committee

    Arne Jönsson (Chair)
    Department of Computer and Information Science
    Linköping University
    S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
    tel: +46 13 281717
    fax: +46 13 142231
    email: <mailto:arnjo@ida.liu.se>arnjo@ida.liu.se

    Jan Alexandersson (Co-chair)
    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH
    Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
    66 123 Saarbrücken
    Germany
    tel: +49-681-3025347
    fax: +49-681-3025341
    email: <mailto:jan.alexandersson@dfki.de>jan.alexandersson@dfki.de

    Tilman Becker (Co-chair)
    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH
    Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
    66 123 Saarbrücken
    Germany
    tel: +49-681-3025271
    fax: +49-681-3025341
    email: <mailto:tilman.becker@dfki.de>tilman.becker@dfki.de

    Kristiina Jokinen (Co-chair)
    Media Lab,University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH
    Hämeentie 135 C
    FIN-00530 Helsinki, Finland
    tel: +358-9-7563-0269
    fax: +358-9-7563-0555
    e-mail: <mailto:Kristiina.Jokinen@uiah.fi>Kristiina.Jokinen@uiah.fi

    Magnus Merkel (Co-chair)
    Department of Computer and Information Science
    Linköping University
    S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
    tel: +46 13 281964
    fax: +46 13 142231
    email: <mailto:magme@ida.liu.se>magme@ida.liu.se

    Program Committee

    Jens Allwod, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden
    Bill Andersen, Ontology works, USA
    Jennifer Chu-Carrol, IBM, USA
    Christy Doran, MITRE, USA
    Staffan Larsson, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden
    Patrizia Paggio, CST, Denmark
    Robert Porzel, EML Germany
    Norbert Reithinger, DFKI, Germany
    Candy Sidner, MERL, USA
    Ingrid Zukermann, Monash University, Australia
    Laurent Romary, Loria, France
    Ronnie Smith, East Carolina University, USA
    Steffen Staab, Karlsruhe University, Germany



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