2nd IJCAI Workshop
on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS August 5, 2001, Seattle Officially endorsed by SIGDial |
Important Dates | Submission Procedure | Organizing Committee |
Workshop program |
Further information |
The second workshop will continue along the same lines. The topic of dialogue systems and the type and management of their knowledge is becoming increasingly important not only for applications utilizing spoken natural language interaction but also for applications that allow interaction with several modalities and especially in real environments where several other information sources must be coordinated.
The workshop will especially concentrate on multimodal interfaces, which in the past five or ten years have seen a growing interest. Providing systems with multimodal behaviour is seen as a way of allowing for more natural human-machine communication, but it also has applications in new areas like robotics, text mining, and interaction for disabled and mobile communication.
Multimodal dialogue systems can facilitate communication since the interpretation of the communicative acts can be based on input from different modality devices and errors in one channel can be compensated by the information coming from another channel. On the other hand, the use of additional modalities is also likely to introduce ambiguities and uncertainty, and thus multimodality puts heavy demand on flexible interaction modelling. The need to merge input from different sources requires extensive reasoning capabilities both in understanding and responding to partial, erroneous, multi-channel input. The workshop focuses especially on these aspects: the coordination and integration of multimodal inputs and the ways in which multimodal inputs reinforce and complement each other, and the role of dialogue in multimodal interaction. An important issue is also the representation of multimodal inputs, and it can be mentioned that last year the W3C initiative has issued a document on Voice Markup Languages including requirements for standards concerning multimodal input and output (http://www.w3.org/TR/voice-dialog-reqs).
The following topics are of primary interest to the workshop:
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 applictions, 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.
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.
Electronic submissions (in postscript format) should be sent to
Jan Alexandersson at: jan.alexandersson@dfki.de
Alternatively, three hardcopies can be mailed to the corresponding
address below.
Jan Alexandersson
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66 123 Saarbrücken
Germany
The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be distributed to each participant.
First call for papers: 1 December, 2000
Second call for papers: 15 January, 2001
DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN EXTENDED. NEW DEADLINES:
Deadline for submission of papers: 9 March, 2001
Notification of acceptance: 3 April, 2001
Camera-ready paper for the workshop notes: 24 April, 2001
Workshop: 5 August, 2001
Lars Ahrenberg (Co-chair)
Department of Computer and Information Science Linköping University S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden tel: +46 13 282422 fax: +46 13 142231 email: lah@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: jan.alexandersson@dfki.de |
Kristiina Jokinen (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: Kristiina.Jokinen@uiah.fi |
Arne Jönsson (Co-chair)
Department of Computer and Information Science Linköping University S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden tel: +46 13 281717 fax: +46 13 142231 email: arnjo@ida.liu.se |