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face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">First
Call for Papers:<br>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:
Calibri;"><b><br>
International Workshop on </b><br>
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align="center"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:
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“<b>Language - Action Tools for Cognitive Artificial Agents:
</b></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:
Calibri;">Integrating Vision, Action and Language</span></b><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">“</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sifnos.ilsp.gr/Poeticon/aaai-workshop">http://sifnos.ilsp.gr/Poeticon/aaai-workshop</a></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:
Calibri;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;"
align="center"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:
Calibri;"> A<span style=""> </span>Satellite event of the </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;"
align="center"><font face="Calibri"><b><i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(10, 74, 72);">25<sup>th</sup>
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2011)</span></i></b><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">, </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;"
align="center"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:
Calibri;" lang="PT-BR">7-11 August, 2011, San Francisco, USA </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="PT-BR"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai11.php">http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai11.php</a></span></font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"
lang="PT-BR"></span></font> <br>
<p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Scope</span></b><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Endowing
artificial agents with language and action abilities has been
a quest in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) subfields. A
number of AI applications require coupling of language and
motoric or visual action (and objects), ranging from
language-based human-robot interaction to event recognition.
Recent years have witnessed great advances in different
disciplines that provide the theoretical and technological
framework for an interdisciplinary approach to language-action
integration. Neuroscience research provides more and more
evidence on a common neural basis for language and action,
both in perception and in production. A growing body of
experimental cognitive science findings sheds light on the
close interaction and reciprocal influence of language and
action in a number of tasks, such as categorisation and
learning.<span style=""> </span>On their part, technological
advances in multisensory human behaviour measurement have
enabled the development of recognitive and generative
algorithms for the analysis of sensorimotor representations, </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">ones that are analogical to
language analysis and generation models. How could
language-action integration benefit from all such
developments? If it does, will this lead beyond the current
state of the art in real-life AI applications that require
generalisation and optimality in language-action integration?</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 3pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The goal of
this workshop is to bring together an interdisciplinary group
of computational linguists, computer vision researchers,
roboticists and neuroscientists that will address the issue of
<i>developing biologically-inspired language and action
technology for artificial agents</i>. The focus is both on<br>
<br>
</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 3pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(a) <i>how
individual technologies can benefit from interdisciplinary
research for going beyond the state of art in
language-action integration tasks</i>, and </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(b) <i>how
language processing, visual processing and/or motor control
algorithms can be integrated in artificial agents allowing
for behaviour generalisation and optimisation</i>. <br>
</span></font></p>
<h4><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Submissions</span></font></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The workshop
will be </span><i style=""><span style="font-family:
Calibri;">a <b>two-day meeting</b></span></i><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">, which will comprise of a mix
of invited talks, paper presentations and panel discussions.
System demonstrations will also take place in break-out
sessions that will allow for more interaction among
participants.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span
style=""> </span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 3pt 0cm 6pt; text-align:
justify;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We
invite original contributions on topics that include, but are
not limited to:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 35.7pt; text-align: justify;
text-indent: -17.85pt; line-height: 150%;"><font face="Calibri"><span
style=""><span style="">-<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Embodied language processing,
Neurolinguistics</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent:
-18pt; line-height: 150%;"><font face="Calibri"><span style=""><span
style="">-<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Cognitive vision tools </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent:
-18pt; line-height: 150%;"><font face="Calibri"><span style=""><span
style="">-<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Active multisensory perception </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent:
-18pt; line-height: 150%;"><font face="Calibri"><span style=""><span
style="">-<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Neuroscience findings that
impinge in technology (Neuro-robotics)</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent:
-18pt; line-height: 150%;"><font face="Calibri"><span style=""><span
style="">-<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Language-Action tools for Visual
Scene Understanding /Event Recognition</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent:
-18pt; line-height: 150%;"><font face="Calibri"><span style=""><span
style="">-<span style=""> </span></span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Verbal requests for
accomplishing everyday tasks (Human-Robot interaction)<br>
<br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:
Calibri; color: black;">* Submission deadline: </span><b><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">April 22</span></b><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">, 2011</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:
Calibri; color: black;">* Notification date: </span><b><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">May 13</span></b><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">, 2011</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family:
Calibri; color: black;">* Author accepted paper submission
deadline: </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; color:
black;">May 27</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;
color: black;">, 2011</span><span style="font-family:
Calibri;"></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Calibri"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">The workshop proceedings will
appear as a AAAI Technical Report. <br>
Submissions must be in AAAI format (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php">http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php</a>)
and be up to 6 pages in length. <br>
Please submit as PDF via email to the workshop chair, Katerina
Pastra, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:kpastra@ilsp.gr">kpastra@ilsp.gr</a></span></font></p>
<h4><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Organizing
Committee</span></font></h4>
<p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ilsp.gr/homepages/pastra_eng.html">Katerina
Pastra</a> (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:kpastra@ilsp.gr">kpastra@ilsp.gr</a>, Institute
for Language and Speech </span><span style="font-family:
Calibri;">Processing</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Greece</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cfar.umd.edu/%7Eyiannis/">Yiannis Aloimonos</a>
(</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="FI"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:yiannis@cs.umd.edu"><span
style="" lang="EN-US">yiannis@cs.umd.edu</span></a></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">, </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">University of Maryland</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">, </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">USA</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.iit.it/en/people.html?view=profile&layout=profile&id=57">Giorgio
Metta</a> (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:giorgio.metta@iit.it">giorgio.metta@iit.it</a>,
Italian Institute of </span><span style="font-family:
Calibri;">Technology</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Italy</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><font
face="Calibri"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.iit.it/en/people.html?view=profile&layout=profile&id=228">Luciano
Fadiga</a> (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:fdl@unife.it">fdl@unife.it</a>, University of
Ferrara & Italian Institute of Technology, </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Italy</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Calibri"> <br>
<b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sponsors </span></b><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">(full list TBA)</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">: <br>
Support from Google is gratefully acknowledged</span></font></p>
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Dr. Katerina Pastra
Research Fellow
Language Technology Group
Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou
P.C. 151-25, Athens, Greece
tel: + 30 210 6875430 --- fax: +30 210 6852620
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