[Corpora-List] CfP 3 rd Workshop on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

Tue Jan 28 12:08:00 UTC 2003

3 rd IJCAI Workshop on
KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS

August 10, 2003
Acapulco, Mexico

Workshop web page http://www.ida.liu.se/~nlplab/ijcai-ws-03/

 Description of the Workshop

The workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue System
will focus on the role and use of ontologies to develop flexible,
adaptive, user-friendly, and enjoyable multi-modal dialogue systems. We
encourage both papers presenting successful use of ontologies as well
papers on potential drawbacks (or challenges).

This is the third workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical
Dialogue System. The first workshop  was organised at IJCAI in Stockholm
in 1999 IJCAI in Stockholm in 1999. The second workshop was held at
IJCAI 2001 in Seattle and continued along the same lines.

Topics addressed in this workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Techniques for extending dialogue systems' intelligence through rich
semantic modelling as realized by building large ontologies, including
how to improve responses with the aid of ontologies.
* Representations of ontologies; XML, RDF, metatagging; database formats.
* Investigations on multimodal interaction, e.g. what properties are
important for an acceptance of multimodal interaction from the users.
* Development and maintenance of shared knowledge sources and especially
issues on the dynamic nature of the information sources demanding means
for automatic update, and the fact that some  knowledge sources are shared.
* Generality vs specificity of the ontology: applicability to various
applications.
* Techniques for automatic construction of ontologies.
* Techniques for automatic, semi-automatic or dynamic updates of
ontologies for new tasks and domains.
* Considerations on how to merge several ontologies on the one hand or
automatically extend ontologies on the other.
* Dialogue systems that utilise a domain ontology and ontology-based
document processing.
* Extending ontology-based Q&A systems to allow for connected dialogue.
* Architectures for systems combining dialogue management and document
processing.
* Investigations of how a domain ontology can be used by the different
modules in a dialogue system.

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Who should attend

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners
that work on the development of communication models that support robust
and efficient interaction in natural language, both for commercial
dialogue systems and in basic research.

It should be of interest also for anyone studying dialogue and
multimodal interfaces and how to coordinate different information
sources. This involves theoretical as well as practical research, e.g.
empirical evaluations of usability, formalization of dialogue phenomena
and development of intelligent interfaces for various applications, not
excluding such areas as Robotics.

The workshop will encourage the participation of both system builders
and theoretically oriented researchers, thus creating a forum for
discussion across vocational and disciplinary borders. While taking
practical applications and implemented dialogue systems as our point of
departure, we emphasize the potential contributions of theoretical and
empirical research: applications are the best testbeds for evaluating
the usefulness and originality of theories and ideas. There is a certain
lack of communication between theorists and system builders, and the
workshop aims at creating an atmosphere that allows for a productive
interaction between these two groups.

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Workshop format

The workshop will be kept small, with a maximum of 40 participants.
Preference will be given to active participants selected on the basis of
their submitted papers. According to IJCAI rules, all workshop attendees
must register for the main conference.

Each paper will be given ample time for discussion, more than what is
customary at a conference. As said above, we encourage contributions of
a critical or comparative nature that provide fuel for discussion. We
also invite people to share their experiences of implementing and
coordinating knowledge modules in their dialogue systems, and
integrating dialogue components to other applications.

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Submission Instructions

Potential participants are invited to submit extended abstracts on the
topics outlined above. Submissions should be no longer than 6 (six)
pages exclusive of references, single spaced, and be in line with the
IJCAI-style <http://www.ijcai-03.org/1024/html/entrada.html>.

Electronic submissions (in ps or pdf format) should be sent to:
<mailto:ijcaiws at ida.liu.se>ijcaiws at ida.liu.se

The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which
will be distributed to each participant.

Note: Participants are expected to register for the main IJCAI
conference in addition to the workshop.

Important Dates and Deadlines

   * Deadline for the submission of full papers: 7 March, 2003
   * Notification of acceptance/rejection: 2 April, 2003
   * Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: 21 May, 2003

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Organizing Committee

Arne Jönsson (Chair)
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linköping University
S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
tel: +46 13 281717
fax: +46 13 142231
email: <mailto:arnjo at ida.liu.se>arnjo at ida.liu.se

Jan Alexandersson (Co-chair)
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66 123 Saarbrücken
Germany
tel: +49-681-3025347
fax: +49-681-3025341
email: <mailto:jan.alexandersson at dfki.de>jan.alexandersson at dfki.de

Tilman Becker (Co-chair)
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66 123 Saarbrücken
Germany
tel: +49-681-3025271
fax: +49-681-3025341
email: <mailto:tilman.becker at dfki.de>tilman.becker at dfki.de

Kristiina Jokinen (Co-chair)
Media Lab,University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH
Hämeentie 135 C
FIN-00530 Helsinki, Finland
tel: +358-9-7563-0269
fax: +358-9-7563-0555
e-mail: <mailto:Kristiina.Jokinen at uiah.fi>Kristiina.Jokinen at uiah.fi

Magnus Merkel (Co-chair)
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linköping University
S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
tel: +46 13 281964
fax: +46 13 142231
email: <mailto:magme at ida.liu.se>magme at ida.liu.se

Program Committee

Jens Allwod, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden
Bill Andersen, Ontology works, USA
Jennifer Chu-Carrol, IBM, USA
Christy Doran, MITRE, USA
Staffan Larsson, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden
Patrizia Paggio, CST, Denmark
Robert Porzel, EML Germany
Norbert Reithinger, DFKI, Germany
Candy Sidner, MERL, USA
Ingrid Zukermann, Monash University, Australia
Laurent Romary, Loria, France
Ronnie Smith, East Carolina University, USA
Steffen Staab, Karlsruhe University, Germany