[ntcir:258] Reminder: CFP Special Issue on Information Compilation

["Tsuneaki KATO" <kato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Call for Papers:

Special issue on Journal of JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence)

"Information Compilation: fundamental technologies and their possibilities"


It is important for utilizing information to select only useful one
from various information and to review and understand its content
quickly.  Such importance has increased significantly as we are lately
surrounded by huge amount of information of several media such as one
in WWW.  Information compilation is fundamental technologies that help
this important activities, and aims to compile various information
intelligently in order to enhance users' understanding of the
information and to help users to access to the information.

Information compilation distinguished by its two characteristics.  The
first is its cross-modality.  Information compilation handles as its
input various information in the real world extending across various
modes, media and genres.  It also utilizes multimedia presentation as
its output, in which non-linguistic information such as visual one and
linguistic information are coordinated closely.  Based on these
cross-modalities, information compilation is expected to lead a new
field of technologies that is founded on a creative fusion of natural
language processing and information visualization.  The second is its
continuousness in supporting all aspects of information utilization.
It realizes support of users' reviewing and understanding information
and support of users' information access seamlessly, integrating
several technologies conventionally distinguished as summarization and
as information access interface, and those as informative and as
indicative even in the summarization.  Through this integration, it
enables to support users throughout overall process of information
utilization, which covers from reviewing and understanding a chunk of
information as a whole to accessing individual information in it.

The aim of the special issue is to solicit and publish papers that are
concerned to potential components of the information compilation
technologies.  As the first special issue on information compilation,
it welcomes not only well-established and evaluated research results
but also preliminary reports of currently developing themes and
visionary works that could enlarge the concept of information
compilation.  It is convincing that this issue should make widely
known the dawn of the new technologies.


Important Dates

Paper Submission:        November 30th, 2007
Primary notification:    February 15th, 2008
Revised paper due:       April 1st, 2008
Final notification:     May 1st, 2008
Camera-ready Papers due: June 1st, 2008
Publish:		 October 2008 (Vol. 23, No.5)

Contact: Dr. Tsuneaki Kato (Univ. of Tokyo)  kato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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論文募集

人工知能学会論文特集
  「情報編纂：要素技術と可能性」

様々なメディアによる膨大な情報が私達の回りに満ちあふれており，
多種多様な情報から必要なものだけを取り出し，その内容を素早く
理解したり概観したりすることがますます重要となっています．情
報編纂はこのようなニーズに答えるための基盤技術であり，多量雑
多な情報を知的に編纂し，その理解を容易にすると共にそれへのア
クセスを支援することを目的とします．
「情報編纂の基盤技術」は，2006年人工知能学会全国大会で近未来
チャレンジとして提案され，2007年人工知能学会全国大会で多数の
研究発表の応募を頂いています．
本特集号では，情報編纂に関する基盤技術の最初の論文特集号として，
その要素技術となっていくような研究成果に関する論文を広く募集し
ます．確立し評価された研究成果についての発表だけでなく，今後の
更なる展開が期待できるような研究の中間報告，情報編纂というコン
セプトに更なる広がりを与える展望を含んだ論文も歓迎します．

投稿締切　2007年11月30日
掲載予定　2008年9月号

詳しくは以下をご参照下さい．
http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai/journal/special/023.html
http://taurus.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/InformationCompilation/