LaCATODA 2021: The Seventh Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents Online Montreal, Canada, August 21-23, 2021 |
Conference website | http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/IJCAI2021/LaCATODA2021/About.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacatoda2021 |
Submission deadline | May 1, 2021 |
About LaCATODA 2021 (IJCAI 2021 Workshop)
Creating human-like dialog systems have been for decades one of the main goals of AI, but we are still far from achieving this goal for many reasons. LaCATODA series brings together researchers and entrepreneurs working on various facets of understanding, inviting not only computer scientists and engineers but also researchers working on cognition and language to present their work (including work in progress and position papers). Except traditional dialog processing we are interested in common sense knowledge and reasoning, emotions, moral aspects (like detecting hate speech or biases), etc. We are looking forward to discussing social, psychological and philosophical aspects of dialog systems, their problems and ideas for solving these problems. For that reason, also papers analyzing existing systems and describing their shortcomings are welcome.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers describing dialog systems (including dialog analysis) or any findings helpful for building more human-like conversational agents
- Short papers describing work in progress, position papers
List of Topics
- Affective computing
- Agent-based information retrieval
- Attention and focus in dialog processing
- Artificial assistants
- Artificial 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)
- Haris Dindo (Yewno, USA)
- T. Mark Ellison (University of Cologne, Germany)
- 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 (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Tyson Roberts (DeepMind, UK)
- Koichi Sayama (Otaru University of Commerce, Japan)
- Maria Skeppstedt (The 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
- Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Japan
- Jordi Vallverdú, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
- Andre Wlodarczyk, Charles de Gaulle University, France
- Michal Ptaszynski, Kitami institute of Technology, Japan
- Pawel Dybala, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Venue
The workshop will be held online (originally planned for Montreal, Canada) during IJCAI 2021 conference.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to rzepka <at> ist.hokudai.ac.jp