6-8 Nov 2017
London, England
Thirteenth International Symposium on Commonsense Reasoning (Commonsense-2017): Second Call for Papers We invite submissions to Commonsense-2017, to be held in London at University College London, November 6-8, 2017. PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 4, 2017 (see below) Endowing computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence research. Commonsense knowledge and reasoning are relevant for many applications of current interest. Examples include robot and human collaboration, transparent machine-learning systems that can explain their conclusions, social media and story understanding software, and dialogue systems. The recent resurgence of interest in commonsense reasoning reflects a wider societal reaction to current technological advances, such as the fact that "next year a law will come into operation in [EU] member states which gives everyone a right to an explanation of any decision affecting them that has been reached algorithmically" [Guardian newspaper, 14 April 2017]. Approaches to acquiring commonsense knowledge and performing commonsense reasoning may incorporate semantics-based representation and inference, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and/or cognitive science. The symposium aims to encourage cross-fertilization between these and other techniques. The synthesis of multiple approaches is challenging, but could jump-start progress on many outstanding problems of commonsense reasoning. We welcome a wide variety of submissions, including formal results, experimental results, demos, surveys, evaluations and comparisons of different approaches, and papers on methodological issues. While mathematical logic has traditionally been the primary lingua franca of the Symposium, we welcome all relevant and rigorous approaches to automating commonsense knowledge and reasoning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Semantics-based representations for specific commonsense domains, such as: - Time, change, action, causality - Commonsense physical and spatial reasoning - Legal, biological, medical, and other scientific reasoning incorporating elements of common sense - Mental states such as beliefs, intentions, and emotions - Social activities and relationships * Inference methods for commonsense reasoning, such as: - Logic programming - Probabilistic, heuristic, and approximate reasoning - Nonmonotonic reasoning, belief revision and argumentation - Abductive and inductive reasoning - Textual Entailment * Methods for creating commonsense knowledge bases, such as: - Statistical and corpus-based techniques, including both traditional machine learning and deep learning - Crowdsourcing - Hand-crafting domain theories - Hybrid methods * Applications of commonsense reasoning, especially interdisciplinary research in the following areas: - Natural language understanding (understanding discourse, question answering, semantic parsing) - Image understanding - Cognitive robotics and planning - Web-based applications (search, internet of things) - Support technologies (computer-aided instruction, home automation) * Discussions of the science of commonsense reasoning research, including: - Meta-theorems about commonsense theories and techniques - Relation to other fields, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, game theory, and economics - Challenge problem sets and benchmarking By default accepted papers will be published shortly after the symposium in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. Authors may however opt out of publishing in CEUR, e.g. if they wish to publish their paper at another venue. All accepted papers will be made available on the commonsensereasoning.org website for the duration of the symposium. A special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, which will include selected and extended papers from Commonsense-2017, is currently planned; journal submissions will be due in winter 2018. Important Dates - Submissions due: August 4, 2017 - Submission notification date: September 8, 2017 - Camera-ready versions due: September 22, 2017 - Symposium: November 6-8, 2017 Submissions - Submissions will be made through EasyChair, at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=commonsense2017 - Papers are limited to 6 pages, prepared in IJCAI or AAAI format, using Letter or A4 sized paper, plus one additional page for references. Review Process Each paper will receive three blind peer reviews. Selection criteria include novelty, technical accuracy and rigor, significance and generalizability, relevance, and quality of writing. Invited Speakers We are happy to announce two invited speakers for Commonsense 2017: Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London Sebastian Riedel, University College London Conference Chairs Andrew S. Gordon, University of Southern California Rob Miller, University College London Gyorgy Turan, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Szeged Program Committee Eyal Amir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chitta Baral, Arizona State University Vaishak Belle, University of Edinburgh Brandon Bennett, University of Leeds Gabor Berend, University of Szeged Nicola Bicocchi, Unversity of New Brunswick Antonis Bikakis, University College London Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University Cun-Gen Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences Nathanael Chambers, United States Naval Academy William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University Tony Cohn, University of Leeds Ernest Davis, New York University Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University Valeria De Paiva, University of Birmingham Luke Dickens, University College London Esra Erdem, Sabanci University Nina Gierasimczuk, Technical University of Denmark Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California Jonathan Gordon, USC Information Sciences Institute Catherine Havasi, Luminoso Technologies Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia Jeff Horty, University of Maryland Daniela Inclezan, Miami University Naoya Inoue, Tohoku University Benjamin Johnston, University of Technology Sydney Antonis Kakas, University of Cyprus Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Quan Liu, University of Science and Technology of China Loizos Michael, Open University of Cyprus Niloofar Montazeri, University of California Riverside Leora Morgenstern, Leidos Charlie Ortiz, Nuance Communications Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University Theodore Patkos, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras Dimitris Plexousakis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Alan Ritter, Ohio State University Chiaki Sakama, Wakayama University Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University Bob Sloan, University of Illinois at Chicago Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Michael Thielscher, University of New South Wales Richmond Thomason, University of Michigan Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research Laure Vieu, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Stefan Woltran, Technische Universitat Wien Website: http://commonsensereasoning.org -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam