Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents

Dear Colleagues,

The more engineers develop human-like machine intelligence, the more important is for them to be familiar with advances in fields traditionally focusing on humans: ethics, psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science. In the age of data explosion, advancing hardware and more powerful learning algorithms, it has become obvious that we need to study the mechanisms underlying what we call a natural dialog, how we track a conversation and what we remember. It is not enough to pay attention to what information is conveyed but also how it is conveyed. For this reason, we are extending our scope to knowledge-related topics to seek answers to questions like how an utterance can become harmful, amusing, poetic or interesting. We aim to gather AI researchers who realize that, in spite of the current popularity of GenAI "chatbots", they are not really dialog systems and that it is necessary to extend existing algorithms and propose new ones to perform natural conversations.

This Special Issue, in collaboration with LaCATODA 2024 (https://sites.google.com/view/lacatoda2024), aims to stimulate an interdisciplinary discussion on affect in dialog understanding and generation tasks. We call for papers not only on the latest trends but also those that revisit classical studies related to dialog and understanding, as the developments in AI allow the use of theories that have traditionally focused on human interaction and understanding.

Dr. Rafal Rzepka
Dr. Michal Ptaszynski
Dr. Pawel Dybala
Guest Editors

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