LaCATODA 2018: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents 2018 Stockholmsmässan Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-15, 2018 |
Conference website | http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/LACATODA2018/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacatoda2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 15, 2018 |
Submission deadline | May 15, 2018 |
About LaCATODA 2018:
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.
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 three 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 conferences, we will held another workshop under the IJCAI umbrella in Stockholm on July 13-15, 2018.
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 (however, there is no fixed upper limit for page number, we think 4-20 is a plausible range).
http://www.ijcai.org/sites/default/files/FormattingGuidelines2018.zip
Please upload your paper to Easychair till May 15, 2018.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacatoda2018
List of Topics
- Affective computing
- Agent-based information retrieval
- Attention and focus in dialog processing
- Artificial assistants
- Artificial tutors
- Common sense, knowledge and reasoning
- Conversational theories
- Computational cognition
- 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)
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)
Mikolaj Morzy (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Koji Murakami (Rakuten, USA)
Noriyuki Okumura (National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, 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)
Organizing committee
Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Japan
Topics: knowledge acquisition, affective computing, machine ethics
http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/~kabura/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafal_Rzepka
Jordi Vallverdú, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Topics: emotions, chatbots, cognitive science, philosophy
https://uab.academia.edu/JordiVallverdu
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordi_Vallverdu
Andre Wlodarczyk, Charles de Gaulle University, France
Topics: Interactive linguistics, metainformation, formalization and logical reconstruction of linguistic theories
http://perso.numericable.com/andre.wlodarczyk/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Wlodarczyk
Publication
LaCATODA 2018 proceedings will be published in
CEUR-WS
The LaCATODA 2018 official proceedings are planned to published online via CEUR. The link to the last year volume is here:
(You can download a copy of the proceedings from:
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-1926.zip)
Venue
The conference will be held at Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm as a part of FAIM 2018 (July 9-19). See details here:
https://www.ijcai-18.org
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to rzepka replacewithatmark hokudai.ac.jp