dbjapan の皆様 来年３月に開催されます AAAI のシンポジウム AAAI-03 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management の参加募集（発表募集）をお送り致します。ご参考になれば幸いです。 よろしくお願い致します。 国立情報学研究所 片山紀生 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AAAI-03 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management March 24-26, 2003, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Research in diverse areas of media processing is starting to be integrated to form systems for intelligent multimedia knowledge management. Systems of this type will be able to perform knowledge management activities such as extracting information from various media such as text, speech and video, and integrating these into alternative media streams to enrich them. Applications for which these systems might be developed include: Education, e.g. through integrating aural and visual presentations with personal notes and external information resources. Entertainment, e.g. by automatically annotating television and video material with related information of featured individuals or events. Business, e.g. by automatically providing additional relevant information during meetings. Research, e.g. via knowledge discovery and integration from different sources. Component technologies required by these systems include information retrieval, information extraction, speech recognition, video and image analysis, summarisation, agent technologies, multilingual systems, database systems and information visualisation. For example, extraction of information from multimedia data requires the development and integration of robust information extraction methods for event detection and named entity recognition with spoken transcripts and can be integrated with information derived from video streams. Thus rather than merely trying to locate documents, intelligent knowledge management seeks to further integrate technologies to actually mine knowledge from documents and automatically make use of it. The symposium follows on from the successful 1997 AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Integration and Use of Text, Image, Video, and Audio Corpora. Although presentations describing research into the novel integration of technologies and prototype systems will be the central aspect of this symposium, the meeting also aims to bring together researchers who might otherwise not meet to exchange ideas and foster new research initiatives. It is hoped that learning about related research and potential applications will inspire participants to develop new directions in their own work and possibly to collaborate with others working in fields complementary to their own. It is expected that the symposium will be limited to between forty and sixty participants. Working notes will be prepared and distributed to participants. Registration information will be available in December. SUBMISSIONS It is planned that the symposium will consist of formal paper presentations describing current research or prototype systems, as well as interdisciplinary discussion sessions exploring future developments of knowledge management technologies. Those interested in participating in the symposium are invited to submit either a full paper of not more than 5,000 words in length or a one page statement of interest outlining their relevant research activities and how they would like to contribute to the symposium. Important dates: October 4, 2002: deadline for all submssions. November 8, 2002: notification of acceptance. January 20, 2003: deadline for receipt of final material for working notes. Papers and statements of interest should be submitted electronically. Further submission details are available at http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/aaai03-imkm. Please feel free to contact Gareth Jones (G.J.F.Jones@exeter.ac.uk) if you have any questions about the symposium. Organizing Committee Gareth Jones (chair), University of Exeter, UK; Ruud Bolle, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA; Anni Coden, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA; Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Corinna Ng, Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd, UK; Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan ------------------------------------------------------------------------