New Frontiers In Artificial Intelligence: Jsai 2008 Conference And Workshops, Asahikawa, Japan, June 11-13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

This book consists of award papers from the 22nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, held in Asahikawa, Japan, in June 2008 and selected papers from three co-located international workshops. The volume starts with 8 award winning papers of the JSAI 2008 main conference that were selected among more than 400 presentations. They are accompanied by 18 revised full workshop papers, carefully reviewed and selected from 34 presentations at the following three co-located international workshops: Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 2008), the 2nd International Workshop on Juris-Informatics (JURISIN 2008), and the 1st International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement (LIBM 2008). Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Overview of Awarded Papers – The 22nd Annual Conference of JSAI....Pages 3-4 A Japanese Input Method for Mobile Terminals Using Surface EMG Signals....Pages 5-14 Evaluation of Similarity Measures for Ontology Mapping....Pages 15-25 Network Distributed POMDP with Communication....Pages 26-38 Solving Crossword Puzzles Using Extended Potts Model....Pages 39-47 Socialized Computers and Collaborative Learning....Pages 48-61 Learning Communicative Meanings of Utterances by Robots....Pages 62-72 Towards Coordination of Multiple Machine Translation Services....Pages 73-86 Ranking Method of Object-Attribute-Evaluation Three-Tuples for Opinion Retrieval....Pages 87-98 Front Matter....Pages 99-99 Overview of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 2008....Pages 101-102 Multiple Subject Constructions in Japanese: A Dynamic Syntax Account....Pages 103-118 Topic/Subject Coreference in the Hierarchy of Japanese Complex Sentences....Pages 119-132 Japanese Reported Speech: Against a Direct–Indirect Distinction....Pages 133-145 The Dynamics of Tense under Attitudes – Anaphoricity and de se Interpretation in the Backward Shifted Past....Pages 146-160 Argumentative Properties of Pragmatic Inferences....Pages 161-176 Prolegomena to Dynamic Epistemic Preference Logic....Pages 177-192 Monads and Meta-lambda Calculus....Pages 193-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Overview of JURISIN 2008....Pages 211-212 Bootstrapping-Based Extraction of Dictionary Terms from Unsegmented Legal Text....Pages 213-227 Computational Dialectics Based on Specialization and Generalization – A New Reasoning Method for Conflict Resolution....Pages 228-241 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Treatment of Legal Sentences Including Itemized and Referential Expressions – Towards Translation into Logical Forms....Pages 242-253 Computing Argumentation Semantics in Answer Set Programming....Pages 254-269 Front Matter....Pages 271-271 LIBM 2008 - First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement....Pages 273-274 Laughter around the End of Storytelling in Multi-party Interaction....Pages 275-287 Preliminary Notes on the Sequential Organization of Smile and Laughter....Pages 288-293 Laughter for Defusing Tension: Examples from Business Meetings in Japanese and in English....Pages 294-305 Robots Make Things Funnier....Pages 306-313 Laughter: Its Basic Nature and Its Background of Equivocal Impression....Pages 314-329 Back Matter....Pages - Arti?cial intelligence has recently been re-energized to provide the clues needed to resolve complicated problems. AI is also expected to play a central role in enhancing a wide variety of daily activities. JSAI (The Japanese Society for Arti?cial Intelligence) is responsible for boosting the activities of AI researchers in Japan, and their series of annual conferences o?ers attractive forums for the exposition of the latest achievements and inter-group communication. In the past, the best papers of the conferences were published in the LNAI series. This book consists of award papers from the 22nd annual conference of the JSAI (JSAI 2008) and selected papers from the three co-located workshops. Eight papers were selected among more than 400 presentations at the conference and 18 papers were selected from the 34 presentations at the co-located wo- shops; Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 5 (LENLS 2008), the 2nd International Workshop on Juris-informatics (JURISIN 2008), and the First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement (LIBM 2008). The award papers from JSAI 2008 were selected through a r- orous selection process. In the process, papers recommended by session chairs, session commentators, and PC members were carefully reviewed, before the ?nal decision was made.