LACATODA 2019: Linguistic And Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents 2019 Venetian Macao Hotel Resort Macao, Macao, August 10-12, 2019 |
Conference website | http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/IJCAI2019/LACATODA2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacatoda2019 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2019 |
LACATODA 2019: Call for Papers
Link to the Workshop site
Six decades of failure to pass the Turing test by computers leads us to rethink previous approaches, lean towards new technologies and knowledge sources, and combine them with advances in philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science. We stress the fact that the age of information explosion and more powerful learning algorithms gives us a whole new spectrum of possibilities for creating an intelligent machine. Many marvelous ideas of the dawn of Artificial Intelligence research faced problems of exceptions and the impossibility of manual input of all needed knowledge, but today we have vast amounts of data from sensors, images and text so that we can rethink classical AI methods and approaches to dialog systems. The increased use of WWW, Internet of Things or knowledge bases, etc. could allow us to determine standard human behaviors, emotions or even moral reasoning according to the Wisdom of Crowds hypothesis. Collective input data could also help to retrieve knowledge about the physical world we live in. By combining Natural Language Processing methods with cognitive architectures, machine learning and philosophy of mind, we can discover a new range of intelligent systems that understand us, our environment and our feelings. In this context, we see a role for NLP and cognitive approaches to play in developing a new generation of user-friendly, more autonomous but still safe systems which, through interaction with the user and the world, can learn how to reason, behave or speak naturally. We are interested in original papers on systems and ideas for systems that use common sense knowledge and reasoning, affective computing, cognitive methods, learning from broad sets of data and acquiring knowledge, language, user preferences, etc.
The workshop intends to spark an interdisciplinary discussion on joining forces to return AI to its original, broader and deeper goals which are currently represented by AGI – Artificial General Intelligence. In our opinion, these goals and their challenges are distinctly visible in dialog understanding and generation tasks.
After four successful LaCATODAs associated with Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) and IJCAI 2017 and 2018 conferences, we plan another workshop under the IJCAI umbrella to take place in Macao in August, 2019.
Relevant topics:
Affective computing
Agent-based information retrieval
Attention and focus in dialog processing
Artificial assistants and tutors
Common sense knowledge and reasoning
Computational cognition
Conversational theories
Daily life dialog systems
Emotional intelligence simulations
Ethical reasoning
Humor processing
Language acquisition
Machine learning for / from dialogs
Text mining for / from dialogs
Philosophy of interaction / communication
Preference models
Unlimited question answering
User modeling
Wisdom of Crowds approaches
World knowledge acquisition
Systems and approaches combining above topics
Important Dates:
Submission: 15 April 2019 (11:59PM UTC-12:00, "anywhere on Earth")
Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2019
Camera-Ready Submission: 1 June 2019
LaCATODA 2019 Workshop: 10-12 August 2019
For Authors (Submission):
http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/IJCAI2019/LACATODA2019/Submission.html
A list of PC members:
Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Aladdin Ayesh (De Montfort University, UK)
Erik Cambria (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Pawel Dybala (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Haris Dindo (Yewno, USA)
Mark Ellison (Australian National University, Australia)
Jun’ichi Fukumoto (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Ben Groetzel (Novamente, USA)
Dai Hasegawa (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
Ryuichiro Higashinaka (NTT, Japan)
Yasutomo Kimura (Otaru University of Commerce, Japan)
Pawel Lubarski (ClinWork, Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Fumito Masui (Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan)
Michal Mazur (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Mikolaj Morzy (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Koji Murakami (Rakuten, USA)
Noriyuki Okumura (Otemae University, Japan)
Michal B. Paradowski (Warsaw University, Poland)
Michal Ptaszynski (Kitami Institute of Technology)
Tyson Roberts (Google)
Koichi Sayama (Otaru University of Commerce)
Marcin Skowron (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria)
Masato Tokuhisa (Tottori University, Japan)
Yuzu Uchida (Hokkai-gakuen University, Japan)
Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska (Efrei/Esigetel, France)
Adam Wierzbicki (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland)
Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Motoki Yatsu (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
Invited Talk:
We plan an invited talk by one of the Ben Goertzel’s AGI Hong Kong group working on dialog modules for OpenCog and Hanson Robotics.
Organizers:
Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Jordi Vallverdú, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Andre Wlodarczyk, Charles de Gaulle University, France