LaCATODA 2020: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents 2020 To Be Decided Kyoto or Yokohama, Japan, January 4-23, 2021 |
Conference website | http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/IJCAI2020/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacatoda2020 |
Submission deadline | August 28, 2020 |
Author Notification | September 28, 2020 |
Camera-Ready Submission | December 15, 2020 |
WHAT IS LACATODA?
A multidisciplinary workshop for researchers who develop more sophisticated dialog agents and methods for achieving more natural machine-generated conversation or study problems of human communication which are difficult to mimic algorithmically.
http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/IJCAI2020
ABOUT
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 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 that, 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, or language and user preferences.
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 2017/2018/2019 conferences, we will held another workshop under the IJCAI umbrella at Yokohama on July 11-13, 2020.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
Author's Kit: please follow the IJCAI's guidelines (long papers up to 10 pages, short papers up to 4 pages, double blind review).
Please upload your paper to Easychair till May 1, 2020.
For more details visit: http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/IJCAI2020
List of 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
Committees
Program Committee
- 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, Hanson Robotics, Hong Kong)
- Dai Hasegawa (Hokkai-gakuen University, Japan)
- Ryuichiro Higashinaka (NTT, Japan)
- Tomoya Iwakura (Fujitsu Lab, 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 (DeepMind, UK)
- Koichi Sayama (Otaru University of Commerce, Japan)
- Maria Skeppstedt (Institute for Language and Folklore, Sweden)
- 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)
Organizing committee
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Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Japan
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Jordi Vallverdú, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
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Andre Wlodarczyk, Charles de Gaulle University, France
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Michal Ptaszynski, Kitami institute of Technology, Japan
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Pawel Dybala, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Invited Speakers
- TBA
Publication
The LaCATODA 2020 official proceedings are planned to be published online with CEUR. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited to the “Creative Language Processing”, special issue of the Information Processing & Management Journal (Impact Factor: 3.892).
Venue
The workshop will be held at Pacifico Convention Plaza, Yokohama, Japan.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to rzepka(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp