Intelligent media technology for communicative intelligence : second international workshop, IMTCI 2004, Warsaw, Poland, September 13-14, 2004 : revised selected papers

The 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw aimed to explore the current research topics in the ?eld of int- ligent media technologies for communicative intelligence. Communicative intelligence represents a new challenge towards building a sup- intelligence on the ubiquitous global network by accumulating a huge amount of - man andknowledgeresources.The term "communicativeintelligence"re?ects the view that communication is at the very core of intelligence and its creation. Communication permits novel ideas to emerge from intimate interactions by multiple agents, ranging from collaboration to competition. The recent advance of information and commu- cation technologies has established an information infrastructure that allows humans and artifacts to communicate with each other beyond space and time. It enables us to advance a step further to realize a communicative intelligence with many fruitful applications. Intelligentmediatechnologiesattempttocaptureandaugmentpeople’scommuni- tive activities by embedding computers into the environment to enhance interactions in an unobtrusive manner. The introduction of embodied conversational agents that might mediate conversations among people in a social context is the next step in the p- cess. The scope of intelligent media technologies includes design and development of intelligent supports for content production, distribution, and utilization, since rich c- tent is crucial for communication in many applications. The promising applications of intelligence media technologies include e-learning, knowledge management systems, e-democracy, and other communication-intensivesubject domains. Front Matter....Pages - Design Intelligent Web Applications Using Web Modelling Language (WebML)....Pages 1-11 Text Understanding for Conversational Agent....Pages 12-20 Calculus with Fuzzy Numbers....Pages 21-28 Intelligent Data Integration Middleware Based on Updateable Views....Pages 29-39 Real Terrain Visualisation on the Basis of GIS Data....Pages 40-49 Reliable Data Acquisition Systems for Robotics and Multimedia Applications....Pages 50-57 Multi-level Annotation in SpeeCon Polish Speech Database....Pages 58-67 Intelligent Content Extraction from Polish Medical Reports....Pages 68-78 The Explanatory Experiment for Evaluation of SPOC System from Contents Creators’ Perspective....Pages 79-90 Enriching Agent Animations with Gestures and Highlighting Effects....Pages 91-98 Towards Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence....Pages 99-110 Toward Enhancing User Involvement via Empathy Channel in Human-Computer Interface Design....Pages 111-121 Named-Entity Recognition for Polish with SProUT....Pages 122-133 A Survey of Recent Results on Spatial Reasoning via Rough Inclusions....Pages 134-146 Smart Sensor Mesh: Intelligent Sensor Clusters Configuration and Location Discovery for Collaborative Information Processing....Pages 147-157 Towards 3D Face Model from 2D View....Pages 158-162 Intelligent Content Production for a Virtual Speaker....Pages 163-174 Facilitating Understanding for Children by Translating Web Contents into a Storybook....Pages 175-184 Collage of Video and Sound for Raising the Awareness of Situated Conversations....Pages 185-194 Dialogue Processing Memory for Incident Solving in Man-Machine Dialogue....Pages 195-204 Forecasting with a Dynamic Window of Time:The DyFor Genetic Program Model....Pages 205-215 A Question Answer System Using Mails Posted to a Mailing List....Pages 216-227 Towards Extracting Emotions from Music....Pages 228-238 Do We Need Automatic Indexing of Musical Instruments?....Pages 239-245 Mobile Agents: Preserving Privacy and Anonymity....Pages 246-258 Back Matter....Pages - The 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw aimed to explore the current research topics in the?eld of int- ligent media technologies for communicative intelligence. Communicative intelligence represents a new challenge towards building a sup- intelligence on the ubiquitous global network by accumulating a huge amount of - man andknowledgeresources. The term "communicativeintelligence"re?ects the view that communication is at the very core of intelligence and its creation. Communication permits novel ideas to emerge from intimate interactions by multiple agents, ranging from collaboration to competition. The recent advance of information and commu- cation technologies has established an information infrastructure that allows humans and artifacts to communicate with each other beyond space and time. It enables us to advance a step further to realize a communicative intelligence with many fruitful applications. Intelligentmediatechnologiesattempttocaptureandaugmentpeople'scommuni- tive activities by embedding computers into the environment to enhance interactions in an unobtrusive manner. The introduction of embodied conversational agents that might mediate conversations among people in a social context is the next step in the p- cess. The scope of intelligent media technologies includes design and development of intelligent supports for content production, distribution, and utilization, since rich c- tent is crucial for communication in many applications. The promising applications of intelligence media technologies include e-learning, knowledge management systems, e-democracy, and other communication-intensivesubject domains Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence Frontmatter -1 Design Intelligent Web Applications Using Web Modelling Language (WebML) -1 Text Understanding for Conversational Agent -1 Calculus with Fuzzy Numbers -1 Intelligent Data Integration Middleware Based on Updateable Views -1 Real Terrain Visualisation on the Basis of GIS Data -1 Reliable Data Acquisition Systems for Robotics and Multimedia Applications -1 Multi-level Annotation in SpeeCon Polish Speech Database -1 Intelligent Content Extraction from Polish Medical Reports -1 The Explanatory Experiment for Evaluation of SPOC System from Contents Creators' Perspective -1 Enriching Agent Animations with Gestures and Highlighting Effects -1 Towards Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence -1 Toward Enhancing User Involvement via Empathy Channel in Human-Computer Interface Design -1 Named-Entity Recognition for Polish with SProUT -1 A Survey of Recent Results on Spatial Reasoning via Rough Inclusions -1 Smart Sensor Mesh: Intelligent Sensor Clusters Configuration and Location Discovery for Collaborative Information Processing -1 Towards 3D Face Model from 2D View -1 Intelligent Content Production for a Virtual Speaker -1 Facilitating Understanding for Children by Translating Web Contents into a Storybook -1 Collage of Video and Sound for Raising the Awareness of Situated Conversations -1 Dialogue Processing Memory for Incident Solving in Man-Machine Dialogue -1 Forecasting with a Dynamic Window of Time:The DyFor Genetic Program Model -1 A Question Answer System Using Mails Posted to a Mailing List -1 Towards Extracting Emotions from Music -1 Do We Need Automatic Indexing of Musical Instruments? -1 Mobile Agents: Preserving Privacy and Anonymity -1 Backmatter -1

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second Workshop on Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence, IMTCI 2004, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2004.

The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for publication during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics addressed are semantic annotation, intelligent Web applications, conversational agents, intelligent data integration, speech processing, content extraction, agent animation, intelligent user interfaces, smart environments, virtual reality, content production, digital storytelling, situated conversation, dialogue processing, question answering systems, emotion extraction, musicology, and privacy and anonymity.