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SUMMARY:Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dia
 log Agents (LaCATODA 2010), Leicester, U.K.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100329
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100401
LOCATION:Leicester, U.K.
DESCRIPTION:The age of information explosion gives
  us a whole new spectrum of possibilities for crea
 ting an intelligent machine. Many marvelous ideas 
 of the dawn of Artificial Intelligence research fa
 ced problems of exceptions and the impossibility o
 f manual input of all needed knowledge, but today 
 we have vast amounts of data from sensors and text
  so that we can rethink classical AI methods and a
 pproaches. The increased use of WWW, RFID, Bluetoo
 th, etc. could allow us to determine standard huma
 n behaviors, emotions or even moral reasoning acco
 rding to the Wisdom of Crowds hypothesis. Collecti
 ve input data could also help to retrieve knowledg
 e about the physical world we live in. By combinin
 g Natural Language Processing methods with cogniti
 ve approaches, we can discover a new range of inte
 lligent systems that understand us, our environmen
 t and our feelings.  In this context, we see a rol
 e for NLP and cognitive approaches to play in deve
 loping a new generation of user-friendly, safe sys
 tems that, through interaction with the user and t
 he world, can learn how to reason, behave or speak
  naturally. We are interested in original papers o
 n systems and ideas for systems that use common se
 nse knowledge and reasoning, affective computing, 
 cognitive methods, learning from broad sets of dat
 a and acquiring knowledge, or language and user pr
 eferences. The symposium intends to spark an inter
 disciplinary discussion on joining forces to retur
 n AI to its original, broader and deeper goals whi
 ch are currently represented by AGI - Artificial G
 eneral Intelligence.   For more information, see h
 ttp://sig.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/AISB10/LaCATODA2
 010/   We invite submissions of high-quality paper
 s describing original research on different approa
 ches to artificial dialog algorithms their impleme
 ntation, their supporting theories, and their appl
 ications. Paper submission deadline: Monday 11th J
 anuary 2010 Types of submission: Full and short pa
 pers.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div>\n      <p>The a
 ge of information explosion gives us a whole new\n
       spectrum of possibilities for creating an in
 telligent\n      machine. Many marvelous ideas of 
 the dawn of Artificial\n      Intelligence researc
 h faced problems of exceptions and the\n      impo
 ssibility of manual input of all needed knowledge,
  but today\n      we have vast amounts of data fro
 m sensors and text so that we\n      can rethink c
 lassical AI methods and approaches. The increased\
 n      use of WWW, RFID, Bluetooth, etc. could all
 ow us to determine\n      standard human behaviors
 , emotions or even moral reasoning\n      accordin
 g to the Wisdom of Crowds hypothesis. Collective i
 nput\n      data could also help to retrieve knowl
 edge about the physical\n      world we live in. B
 y combining Natural Language Processing\n      met
 hods with cognitive approaches, we can discover a 
 new range\n      of intelligent systems that under
 stand us, our environment and\n      our feelings.
 </p>\n      <p>In this context, we see a role for 
 NLP and cognitive\n      approaches to play in dev
 eloping a new generation of\n      user-friendly, 
 safe systems that, through interaction with the\n 
      user and the world, can learn how to reason, 
 behave or speak\n      naturally. We are intereste
 d in original papers on systems and\n      ideas f
 or systems that use common sense knowledge and rea
 soning,\n      affective computing, cognitive meth
 ods, learning from broad sets\n      of data and a
 cquiring knowledge, or language and user\n      pr
 eferences.  The symposium intends to spark an\n   
    interdisciplinary discussion on joining forces 
 to return AI to\n      its original, broader and d
 eeper goals which are currently\n      represented
  by AGI - Artificial General Intelligence.\n      
 </p>\n    \n      \n      <p>For more information,
  see\n        <a target="_blank" href="http://sig.
 media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/AISB10/LaCATODA2010/">http
 ://sig.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/AISB10/LaCATODA2010
 /</a>\n      </p>\n    </div><div>\n      <p>\n   
      We invite submissions of high-quality papers 
 describing\n        original research on different
  approaches to artificial dialog\n        algorith
 ms their implementation, their supporting theories
 ,\n        and their applications.\n        Paper 
 submission deadline: Monday 11th January 2010\n   
      Types of submission: Full and short papers.\n
       </p>\n      </div>
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