Main conference: THIRTY-FIRST AAAI CONFERENCE (AAAI-17)

Overview

Virtual Assistants, Robots and other Artificial Intelligent (AI) Agents are becoming mainstream in our lives. They manage our calendar; help us navigate to the closest Starbucks or help us when we’re doing online shopping. Thanks to the power of deep learning and cloud computing, machines have been mimicking our brain learning patterns, mainly by ingesting large amounts of data from which they learn how to execute tasks, provide answers and make decisions. Most of these AI Agents are learning to recognize and understand us, even when we talk to them in different dialects and in different languages and are communicating back to us using synthetic voices. Data plays a huge role in the development of these agents and crowdsourcing has been used widely in academia and industry in order to not only help scaling this data needs but also helping developers test the user experience of their Virtual Assistant apps.

Call for papers

We are launching a call for papers related to the following topics:

• Machine learning techniques applied to AI;
• Crowdsourcing applications in speech and NLP technologies;
• Novel and creative approaches, processes and methodologies using crowdsourcing/human computation;
• Incentives in crowdsourcing and impact in performance;
• Data quality control and anti-spam processes, algorithms, techniques;
• Games with a purpose and gamification techniques applied to speech and dialogue;
• Usability studies and experiences using crowdsourcing;
• Mobile crowdsourcing applications;
• Innovative application paradigms, e.g. mobile crowdsourcing data collections, multi-modal, multi-lingual, multi-platform;
• Social aspects of crowdsourcing;
• Crowdsourcing and translation;
• Crowdsourcing and sentiment analysis;
• Data privacy challenges and solutions;
• Big data, business intelligence and crowdsourcing.

Important dates

• Updated deadline: November 4, 2016
• Notification date: November 18, 2016
• Author accepted paper submission deadline: December 8, 2016
• Workshop day: February 4, 2017

Venue:

Hilton San Francisco Union Square 333 O'Farrell Street San Francisco, California 94102

Paper submissions format

• Long papers and position papers: up to 8 pages
• Work in progress, demo papers: up to 4 pages
• Submissions must be in AAAI format and submitted as PDF. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. The accepted papers will be published by the AAAI Press Proceedings.
• Papers should be submitted to: daniela@definedcrowd.com

Workshop Chair:

For questions, please contact:

Daniela Braga, CEO and Chief Scientist Officer, DefinedCrowd Corp. daniela@definedcrowd.com
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