IJCAI-99 Workshop
on KNOWLEDGE AND REASONING IN PRACTICAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS 2 August 1999, Stockholm Officially endorsed by SIGDial |
Important Dates | Submission Procedure |
Organizing Committee | Programme Committee | Further information | Participants
Selected papers from the workshop will be published in a special issue of Intelligent Dialogue Systems of the ETAI area "Intelligent User Interfaces". Currently papers are discussed on the discussion page
To obtain a copy of the WS-proceedings please send an e-mail to prof. Anita Kollerbaur anita@dsv.su.se and ask for a copy -- she will charge you 100 SEK + postage.
For the sake of robustness and portability current practical dialogue systems tend to rely on simple models for dialogue management (e.g. state transition diagrams or dialogue grammars) and simple representations (if any) of domain or task knowledge (e.g. frames) and for certain applications, such as information retrieval from a database, these models actually appear to be sufficient. On the other hand, dialogue models developed within AI tend to emphasize the relation between utterances and speakers' goals and plans, the importance of being able to reason about other agents' beliefs and intentions, and the need for domain knowledge and discourse representation for resolving anaphoric and deictic references. Somewhere in between we also find proposals that either augment the simpler dialogue models with generic and specific domain knowledge, or restrict the role of plan inference to specific situations. The workshop aims at studying the need for knowledge and reasoning in dialogue systems from theoretical and practical perspectives. Besides the innovative aspect of research, an emphasis is also laid on the importance of implemented dialogue systems as test-beds for evaluating the usefulness of theories and ideas, and on improvements in practical system abilities supporting a more natural and efficient interaction. We primarily seek contributions which discuss one or more of the following issues:
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
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbrücken
GERMANY
The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be distributed to each participant. Further publication channels will be explored and decided at the workshop.
Electronic submission deadline: 1 March, 1999
Paper submission deadline: 3 March, 1999
Notification of acceptance: 23 April, 1999
Audio-visual requirements for accepted papers: 30 April, 1999
Camera-ready paper for the workshop notes: 21 May, 1999
Workshop: 2 August, 1999
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 (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 (Co-chair)
ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories 2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun Kyoto 619-0288 Japan tel: +81-774-95-1342 fax: +81-774-95-1308 email: kjokinen@itl.atr.co.jp |
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 |