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new.bham.ac.uk <rootnew.bham.ac.uk>CALL FOR PAPERS A I - E D 9 7 8TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION --- Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems --- 19th - 22nd August, 1997 Kobe International Conference Center, JAPAN URL: http://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/aied97/cfp.html Co-Sponsored by: Artificial Intelligence in Education Society(AI-ED) and Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education(JSISE) In Cooperation with: Asia-Pacific Chapter of the AACE Japanese Association for Artificial Intelligence The 8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED 97) is one of a series of international conferences designed to report the best research in the field of AI in Education and to provide opportunities for the cross-fertilisation of information and ideas on research and applications in this field. The theme for 1997 will be Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems, and papers that explore the emerging roles of intelligent multimedia and distributed technologies as well as computer supported collaboration within that theme will be particularly welcome. You are invited to submit proposals for research papers, survey papers, themed papers, posters, tutorials, workshops, and panels. All proposals will be reviewed for inclusion in the technical program. Scope The technical program focuses on research activities linking Artificial Intelligence theories and techniques with Educational theory and practice. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Agents Architectures Authoring systems and tutoring shells Case-based systems Cognitive development Cognitive diagnosis Collaboration and collaborative tools Computer-assisted language learning Conceptual change Educational robotics Evaluation of instructional systems Human factors and interface design Intelligent multimedia and hypermedia systems Intelligent tutoring systems Knowledge and skill acquisition Knowledge representation for instruction Learning environments and microworlds Modelling pedagogical interactions Motivation Natural language interfaces Networked learning and teaching systems Non-standard and innovative interfaces Principles and tools for instructional design Social and cultural aspects of learning Student modelling Higher-order thinking skills and metacognition Theories of teaching Visual and graphical interfaces +In addition to RESEARCH papers and posters in the above areas, SURVEY papers will also be accepted. A survey paper will offer a coherent and critical summary of achievements and outstanding problems in an area. +To provoke debate and reflection, THEME papers are also sought under the specific title "Knowledge and Media in Learning Systems - the next 15 years". +Exhibits are expected to be an integral part of the AI-ED 97 conference. Companies or institutions offering to exhibit AI-ED products are invited. Papers All submissions should describe original and unpublished work. Research papers should describe results of system development and/or empirical or theoretical analysis. A small number of Survey papers and Theme papers will be accepted that synthesise and examine broad issues in the field. All accepted papers will be published in the AI-ED 97 Proceedings and will be candidates for Best Paper Awards. Awarded papers will be invited for publication in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, the official journal of the AI-ED Society. Submissions: Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages, including all tables, figures, and references but excluding the cover page. Fonts should be at no smaller than 10 point (12 point pica for typewriters). Margins should be at least 1 inch all around. Each submission must include 1 cover page and 5 paper copies of the complete manuscript. The cover page should include: the title of the paper with an abstract of no more than 500 words; keywords giving a clear indication of topic and subtopic; author names with affiliations, addresses, and phone numbers; and the E-mail address of the principal author. Authors are also requested to send an electronic (text) copy of this cover page to the program chair at aied97Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
dcs.shef.ac.uk>CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Bellagio, Italy, 14-16 July, 1997 http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/Bellagio/ We have received many expressions of interest in this workshop, both from the commercial sector and from academia. As a result we are now pleased to announce that the workshop will definitely go ahead on the above dates. Registration details soon via next mailing and on the WWW page. For the benefit of those who may have missed the earlier announcement, this workshop will survey and demonstrate techniques for practical, plausible, human-computer conversation. The workshop will be in the spirit of the Loebner Competition meetings, but will not constitute any kind of "Turing" competition under controlled deception conditions. It will, however, provide an opportunity for extensive demonstrations of working conversational systems, preferably those without domain restrictions. The meeting is not intended to be yet another get together on linguistic methods for dialogue modelling or human-computer interaction, but rather based on the assumption that, in many places, great strides are being made in real conversation simulations from a range of practical techniques and points of view, and that everyone working in this field would benefit from face-to-face interaction, as well as exploring the industrial/commercial applications of these technologies in HCI/WWW environments. In addition to the formal papers and the demonstrations of working systems there will also be panel discussions on the state of the art. CONFERENCE VENUE: The conference venue is the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, in Bellagio, Italy, on Lake Como, the legendary site of Pliny's villa where the two arms of the lake meet. Bellagio is one of the most beautiful spots in the world and is easily reached from Milan. The date, 14-16 July 1997, immediately follows the EACL/ACL in Madrid. WORKSHOP PAPERS: This announcement is the first call for papers. We are also inviting applications from those who wish to demonstrate working systems. Papers may be submitted on any aspect of human-computer conversation, ranging from "How-to-do-it" to something far more abstract. The emphasis should be on the software techniques for communication in natural language and NOT on speech recognition or speech synthesis as such, although descriptions of systems capable of intelligent speech communication would be welcomed. SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS: Contributions are invited from authors who have new ideas, results or ongoing work to report on any aspect of human-computer conversation. Papers should ideally be 3,000 to 4,000 words in length and will be refereed within 8 weeks. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions (3 hard copies or one e-mail copy) should be sent to Yorick Wilks at the address below, to arrive no later than March 29th 1997. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by May 27th 1997. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to make their contribution available in machine-readable form (Word Perfect, MS Word or ASCII formats are acceptable), to be received by June 17th 1997. DEMONSTRATIONS OF WORKING SYSTEMS Demonstrations of, and discussions about, working systems will form the mail emphasis of the workshop. Statements of intent are solicited to demonstrate working systems which permit a user to converse with a program, either in a single subject domain or on a less restricted basis. Such statements should consist of a system description in 1,000 words or less, together with a specification of what hardware will be required to demonstrate the system. (The hardware spec is not necessary for those who plan to bring their own computer.) A sample of a conversation actually conducted by the system would be helpful but is not essential. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: The workshop is being organized by Intelligent Research Ltd of London, who will assist participants with room reservations at hotels in all price categories, as well as with transportation (if required) from the nearest airports. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK Bruno Alabiso, Microsoft, US Ken Colby, UCLA, US Louise Guthrie, Lockheed Martin, US Koiti Hasida, ETL, Japan David Levy, Intelligent Research, UK Livia Polanyi CSLI, Stanford University, US Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento, Italy Marilyn Walker, AT&T Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, US ********************************* Professor Yorick Wilks AI and NN Research Group, Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 282 5561 fax: (44) 114 278 0972 email: yorickMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue