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Subject: 31.25, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics/United Kingdom

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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:57:47
From: Giusy Gallo [giusy.gallo at unical.it]
Subject: Philosophy after AI: Meaning and Understanding Symposium

 
Full Title: Philosophy after AI: Meaning and Understanding Symposium 
Short Title: PhAI2020 

Date: 06-Apr-2020 - 09-Apr-2020
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Giusy Gallo
Meeting Email: giusy.gallo at unical.it
Web Site: http://www.doppiarticolazione.it/philosophy-after-ai-2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2020 

Meeting Description:

Philosophy after AI symposium claims for a philosophical approach to the
latest issues about the study of human mind and language developed in the
field of Artificial Intelligence.

The goal of the Philosophy after AI symposium is to investigate the
philosophical and linguistic perspectives of the research paths which deal
with language as it is conceived by AI. Since Philosophy after AI is a wide
research programme, the symposium to be held in 2020 is strictly connected to
the previous two events held in 2018 and 2019. The first edition of the
symposium has been devoted to the relationship between mind and knowledge,
including the mind-body problem and the category of subject. The interaction
of the category of subject in the mind-body problem has been highly encouraged
in order to understand how human and artificial subject will live together
also from an ethical perspective. The main themes of the symposium held in
2019 have been imagination and creativity and the role they play in AI
researches and/or, conversely, how much they have changed (and are changing)
after AI developments.

Recent developments in robotics (e.g. care robots) and researches on
algorithms (e.g. a punctual prompter of needs) deal with some philosophical
questions: is human imagination due to be replicated? Are technological
developments affecting human creativity in long term? These issues concern the
nature of learning and creativity philosophically. Moreover, these issues are
bond to the acquisition of language and the linguistic change, which means
that they should be investigated (also) by linguists and philosophers.

The development of AI asks for the role the advancement in such field plays in
researches devoted to language, including the helpful effect on people with
disabilities. Looking at linguistic practice, it seems that meaning and
understanding will be increasingly investigated for application in AI
research, starting from the classical (but needed) distinction between
understanding and speech recognition. Another important issue concerns the
shift in research on language: from the early attempts focused on syntax (e.g.
SHRDLU by Winograd), researches have turned to issues such as automatic
translation, language-learning data, natural language technologies. We should
explore the way machines implement human language (e.g. Siri, Cortana, Alexa
and many other smart assistants): could devices and human beings understand
each other? In order to answer the question, one should start from exploring
the sense of “understanding” and the influence of concepts from pragmatics
such as context, intentions of the utterer and relevance.


Call for Papers:

Topics of Interest:

We invite talks on the following (but not exclusively) topics:
Linguistics and AI;
AI research on language;
Learning, creativity and AI;
Meaning and AI;
Creativity, machine-learning and language;
Robots and communication;
Truth, post-truth and AI;
Social media, devices and human sociality.

Submission and Publication Details:

Submissions must be extended abstracts of two page to four pages (including
notes and references) and should be sent via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=phai2020

Text editor templates from a previous convention can be found at:  
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/submission.php

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission  deadline: 10 January 2020
Notification  of  acceptance/rejection decisions: 05 February 2020
Final versions  of  accepted  papers  (Camera  ready  copy): 2 March 2020
Convention:  6-­‐9  April  2020  [confirmation  of  symposium  date tbc]
Philosophy after AI Symposium date will be scheduled after the notification of
acceptance

Full CFP: http://www.doppiarticolazione.it/philosophy-after-ai-2020/




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