[Corpora-List] CFP: IUI-2008 Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces (CSKGOI 2008)

[Catherine Havasi]

CFP: IUI-2008 Workshop on Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented 
Interfaces (CSKGOI 2008)

     Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces (CSKGOI 2008)
     A workshop at Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008)
     January 13, 2008 (Papers Due November 19th)
     Canary Islands, Spain


Webpage: http://csc-master.media.mit.edu/cskgoi/


Overview:

   When interacting with user interfaces, users have to bridge the gap 
between their goals expressed in mental terms and the interface's 
structures and functions expressed in physical terms. This gap has been 
characterized as the "Gulf of Execution", and it may imply significant 
cognitive processing on the users' side in order for them to successfully 
accomplish their goals.
   If user interfaces could understand, at a high-level, our goals, our 
problems, and our social procedures, users could have cognitively 
accessible, dynamic interfaces accommodating their unique needs, beyond 
the range of applications anticipated by the designers.
   For computers to realize such a goal-oriented paradigm,
  * They must have access to information about the world that human users 
take for granted. This information, which forms the basis for 
goal-directed computer interactions, is common sense knowledge.
  * They must provide for algorithms and techniques that are capable of 
acquiring and structuring knowledge about user goals.
  * They must have adequate means to represent knowledge about user goals 
in a way that allows for reasoning and inference about them.
  * They must provide for user interfaces that effectively map users' goals 
on the computer's functionalities and structures.
   This workshop has the goal of bringing together researchers from 
different domains that share an interest in common sense knowledge and 
goal-oriented knowledge representations in the context of intelligent user 
interfaces.


Important Dates:

     Workshop Paper submissions: Sunday, 19 November, 2007, 5pm US EDT 
(2100 UTC)
     Workshop Paper notification: Saturday, 10 December, 2007
     Camera-ready Paper due: Sunday, 9 December, 2007, 5pm US EDT (2100 
UTC)
     Workshop: Sunday, 13 January, 2008


Paper Submission:

   We encourage submissions from researchers with a variety of backgrounds, 
including common sense reasoning, natural language processing, automatic 
classification, ontology, semantic web, requirements engineering, 
knowledge management and information sciences.

   Topics include, but are not limited to:

   Knowledge Acquisition:
     Mining of common sense knowledge and goals from different corpora
     Algorithms and techniques for collaborative knowledge acquisition
     Methods for knowledge validation
   Knowledge Representation
     Representational theories of commonsense knowledge
     Distributed forms of knowledge representation, such as goal-oriented 
ontologies and metadata
     Goal-oriented modeling languages and frameworks
     Algorithms for goal-centered reasoning and inference
   User Interfaces
     Integrating commonsense knowledge and inference into user interfaces
     Observational and interactive techniques for goal elicitation and 
recognition
     Evaluation of goal-oriented user interfaces
     Goal-oriented software configuration


  We are accepting full papers and demos. Full papers should be between 6 
and 10 pages. Demo submissions should consist of a brief description (1-4 
pages) and (a link to) a screencast showing the prototype in action (< 5 
minutes, formats: mpeg, flash, avi). Please follow the formatting 
guidelines of the main IUI conference, which are detailed here. Send your 
paper submissions in PDF format to: CSKGOI at gmail.com

While there will not be printed proceedings, all papers will be included 
in the Conference CD or USB memory stick. The formatting of Workshop 
papers should therefore follow the IUI format.


Organizers:

   Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California The Institute for 
Creative Technologies
   Catherine Havasi, Brandeis University Lab for Linguistics and 
Computation
   Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University Institute of Information Technology
   Markus Strohmaier, Graz University of Technology Knowledge Management 
Institute


Program Committee:

   Junia Anacleto, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos
   Ernie Davis, New York University
   Ian Eslick, MIT Media Lab
   Michael Granitzer, Know-Center, Austria
   Pat Hayes, University of West Florida
   Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
   Doug Lenat, Cycorp
   Sotirios Liaskos, University of Toronto/York University, Canada
   Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
   Leora Morgenstern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
   Erik Mueller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
   Roberto Navigli, University of Rome
   Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research
   Eric Yu, University of Toronto
   Yijun Yu, Open University, UK

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact the workshop 
organizers at: CSKGOI at gmail.com


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