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cs.utwente.nl>SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS CELE-Twente Workshops "Learning to Behave" Workshop series on (Human-)Agent Interaction and Agent Learning October 18-20, 2000 "Interacting Agents" (Enschede, The Netherlands) November 22-24, 2000 "Internalising Knowledge" (Ieper, Belgium) ORGANISED BY Parlevink Research Group & Centre for Evolutionary Language Engineering University of Twente/CTIT SAIL Port Western Europe Enschede Ieper The Netherlands Belgium INTRODUCTION The Center for Evolutionary Language Engineering (CELE) and the Parlevink research group of the Computer Science department of the University of Twente are organising a two-part workshop series on human-agent interaction and information processing. The workshops will investigate human-agent interaction and knowledge both on the level of the agent's communication with the external environment and the level of the agent's internal processes that guide the modelling and understanding of the external sensory input in the brain. FORMAT The format of both workshops will consist of keynote presentations by experts in the fields combined with presentations of accepted papers. Ample time is allowed for discussion, thus ensuring that both workshops are genuinely interactive events where new ideas and insights can take form via the collaboration of experts with diverse backgrounds. HONORARY CHAIRS Dirk Frimout, CELE Roel Pieper, University of Twente/Lernout&Hauspie PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (not yet complete) Anton Nijholt, University of Twente (co-chair) Kristiina Jokinen, CELE (co-chair) Dirk Heylen, University of Twente (co-chair) Elisabeth Andre, DFKI, Germany Marc Cavazza, Bradford University, UK Kristina Hook, SICS, Sweden Lewis Johnson, USC/ISI, USA Marc Leman, University of Ghent, Belgium Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin, USA Mahoro Anabuki, Mixed Reality Systems Lab, Yokohama, Japan Klaus Obermayer, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Luc Steels, VUB, Belgium ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Stefaan Decorte, CELE Sven Degroeve, CELE Betsy van Dijk, UT Herwig Van Marck, CELE CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Workshop I: Interacting Agents Enschede, October 18-20, 2000 - ----------------------------- The first workshop, Interacting Agents, will focus on the agents' interaction with the environment, the use of conversational strategies, non-verbal communication, turn-taking, protocols, cross-media references, and the effect of context. This involves the study and design of artificial, embodied agents living in a virtual environment that can use language and other forms of communication, such as gesture and gaze, to interact with users and other agents. The goal is to review state of the art research on multi-modal communication and embodied multi-agents. Topics for contributions for the workshop include but are not restricted to the following: - Conversational skills of embodied agents - Agent communication and natural language processing - Non-verbal communication in human-agent interaction, including gaze, gestures, facial expressions and prosody - Affect and emotion in agents - Empirical evaluation of human-agent interactions - Applications in theatre and e-commerce Workshop II: Internalising Knowledge Ieper, November 22-24, 2000 - ---------------------------------- The second workshop, Internalising Knowledge, concentrates on internal aspects of learning via interaction: computation in brain-like systems. The goal is to investigate cognitive models for information processing and coordination, especially how symbolic processing, conceptualisation and language learning take place in neural models. This includes investigations on the special characteristics of speech and language with respect to the architecture and functional diversity of the brain, cortical organisation and representation of information, as well as on the mechanisms of transforming analogue signals, coming through the senses, into discreet symbols that are used as a means of thought and language. Topics for the second workshop on Internalising Knowledge include but are not restricted to the following: - Emergence of symbolic behaviour in brain-like systems - Cognitive models for human language processing - Perceptual grouping and language patterns - Spatio-temporal learning of musical concepts - Information encoding in brain-inspired models - Language acquisition and development of cognition - Models and algorithms for computational neural architectures SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Researchers working in this domain are invited to email a 2-page abstract (plain ascii format), together with title, affiliation and keywords to ctwltMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
dfki.de>THE I3NET CONFERENCE: BUILDING TOMORROW TODAY This is just to let you know that the Call for Participation for i3net Annual Conference in J�nk�ping 13-15 September 2000 is now available on the web site: http://i3-ac2000.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/content/participation.html Looking forward to seeing many of you there.... regards Nanett Mosumgaard i3net Conference manager Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory University of Southern Denmark Main Campus: Odense University Science Park 10 5230 Odense M Denmark Tel. ( +45) 65 50 35 54 (direct) Tel. ( +45) 65 50 10 00 (switchboard) Fax (+45) 63 15 72 24 email: namoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue