[Corpora-List] Second CFP: AAAI Symposium on Question Generation QG 2011

[Svetlana Stenchikova]

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       Second Call For Papers:
       AAAI Symposium on Question Generation QG 2011
       November 4 - 6, 2011
       http://www.questiongeneration.org/QG2011

       Extended abstract submission deadline May 13, 2011

***** This call contains important updates on the "Program Committee"
and "Submissions" *******
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        Asking questions is a fundamental cognitive process that
        underlies higher-level cognitive abilities such as comprehension
        and reasoning. Ultimately, question generation allows humans,
        and in many cases artificial intelligence systems, to
        understand their environment and each other. Research on
        question generation (QG) has a long history in artificial
        intelligence, psychology, education, and natural language
        processing. One thread of research has been theoretical, with
        attempts to understand and specify the triggers (e.g.,
        knowledge discrepancies) and mechanisms (e.g., association
        between type of knowledge discrepancy and question type)
        underlying QG. The other thread of research has
        focused on automated QG, which has far-reaching applications in
        intelligent technologies, such as dialogue systems, question
        answering systems, web search, intelligent tutoring systems,
        automated assessment systems, inquiry-based environments,
        adaptive intelligent agents and game-based learning
        environments.


        This symposium will foster theoretical and applied research on
        computational and cognitive aspects of QG bringing together
        participants from diverse disciplines including, but not
        limited  to, Natural Language Processing, Artificial
        Intelligence, Linguistics, Psychology, and Education.


        Topics
        --------
        We invite submissions that deal with theoretical, empirical, and
        computational aspects of Question Generation, encouraging
        completed as well as speculative or in-progress work. Topics
        will include, but will not be limited to, the following:


             * Cognitive models of QG
             * Role of QG in learning
             * Role of QG in problem solving
             * Question taxonomies
             * Empirical approaches to QG
             * QG tasks and subtasks
             * Evaluation methods for QG (human, automatic,
               semi-automatic)
             * Corpus annotation schemes for QG
             * Automated question assessment
             * Representation language(s) for data/resource sharing
               between QG systems
             * Impact of NLP technologies on QG tasks
             * Context-sensitive question type selection or ranking
             * Applications of QG (intelligent tutoring systems,
               dialogue systems, web querying, querying over
               information repositories, etc.)
             * Generation from different inputs – knowledge bases,
               ontologies, text, queries
             * Descriptions of implemented QG systems or components


        Submissions
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        We invite submissions of full papers (up to 8 pages, including
        references) or a short papers (up to 4 pages, including
        references) for poster and/or oral presentations. Presenters of
        system implementations will be given the option of presenting
        their work as a demo, a poster, or a combination of both.

        Please submit an extended abstract (approximately 1500-2000
        words for long papers and 800 - 1000 words for short papers)
        by May 13, 2011. Please indicate whether you intend to
        present a system. We welcome submissions describing work in
 	progress and intended research plans.

        Extended abstracts must be submitted as PDF files. Submission
        to QG 2011 should be done through the EasyChair system
        (https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=qg2011).
        Authors who do not have accounts EasyChair will be prompted to
        set up a new account before they can make their submission.


        Submission questions should be directed to the organizers at
        qg2011 at googlegroups.com


        Important dates
        -------------------

             * Extended abstract submission: May 13, 2011
             * Acceptance notification: June 3, 2011
             * Final paper submission: September 9, 2011
             * Symposia: November 4 - 6, 2011


        Programme Committee
        -------------------
	
        Gregory Aist, Iowa State University, USA
        Itziar Aldabe, University of the Basque Country, Spain
        Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, North Carolina State University, USA
        Delphine Bernhard, UniversitÇ de Paris, France
        Johan Bos, University of Groningen, Netherlands
        Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney, Australia
        Yllias Chali, University of Lethbridge, Canada
        Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA
        Wei Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
        Dan Flickinger, Stanford University, USA
        Michael Heilman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
        Tsukasa Hirashima, Hiroshima University, Japan
        Stephanie Jean-Daubias, UniversitÇ de Lyon, France
        Fazel Keshtkar, University of Memphia, USA
        Hidenobu Kunichika, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
        Mihai Lintean, University of Memphis, USA
        Jon Mason, InterCog, Australia
        Juan Pino, University of Cambridge, UK
        Paul Piwek, The Open Univesity, UK
        Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA
        Jeremiah Sullins, University of Memphis, USA


        Organizing Committee
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        Arthur Graesser (University of Memphis, USA), James Lester
        (North Carolina State University, USA), Jack Mostow (Carnegie
        Mellon University, USA), Rashmi Prasad (University of
        Pennsylvania, USA), Svetlana Stoyanchev (The Open University,
        UK)


        Submission details and further information are on
        http://www.questiongeneration.org/QG2011

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