CSIUI 2009: Story understanding and generation for aware and interactive interface design

Abstract

In order to be helpful to people, the intelligent interfaces of the future will have to acquire, represent, and infer simple knowledge about everyday life and activities. While much work in AI has represented this knowledge at the word, sentence, and logical assertion level, we see a growing need to understand it at a larger granularity, that of stories. The workshop, like its predecessors, had the goal of bringing together researchers in common sense reasoning with researchers in intelligent interfaces. Each year our workshop has a different focus in addition to these two areas and this year's workshop focused on the acquisition, understanding and creation of stories.