Dear Colleagues,

** Sorry for cross-postings **

This year our workshop LaCATODA 2022 will be co-located with ACII 2022.

Please, consider submitting a paper. The accepted papers will be published in the ACII workshop proceedings indexed by IEEExplore.

Best regards,

Michal Ptaszynski in the name of LaCATODA 2022 organizers,

Michal PTASZYNSKI, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-cho, Kitami, 090-8507, Japan TEL/FAX: +81-157-26-9327 michal@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/~ptaszynski/

========================================================== The Eighth Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2022) (ACII 2022 Workshop) http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/ACII2022/ Venue: Nara, Japan & online (in conjunction with ACII, https://acii-conf.net/2022/) ==========================================================

WHAT IS LaCATODA?

A multidisciplinary workshop for researchers who develop dialog agents and methods for achieving more natural machine-generated conversation or study problems of human communication which are difficult to mimic algorithmically. We are interested in original papers on systems and ideas for systems that use common sense knowledge and reasoning, affective computing, cognitive methods, learning from broad sets of data and acquiring knowledge, or language and user preferences.

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Important Dates: Paper submission: 20 July 2022 (11:59PM UTC-12:00, "anywhere on Earth") Notification of acceptance: 4 August 2022 Camera-Ready submission: 14 June 2022 LaCATODA 2022 Workshop: 17 October 2022

Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacatoda2022

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Relevant Topics: - Affective computing - Agent-based information retrieval - Attention and focus in dialog processing - Artificial assistants - Artificial tutors - Common sense, knowledge and reasoning - Computational cognition - Conversational theories - Daily life dialog systems - Emotional intelligence simulations - Ethical reasoning - Humor processing - Language acquisition - Machine learning for / from dialogs - Text mining for / from dialogs - Philosophy of interaction / communication - Preference models - Unlimited question answering - User modeling - Wisdom of Crowds approaches - World knowledge acquisition - Systems and approaches combining above topics

Organizers: Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Japan Jordi Vallverdú, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Andre Wlodarczyk, Charles de Gaulle University, France Michal Ptaszynski, Kitami institute of Technology, Japan Pawel Dybala, Jagiellonian University, Poland