text_combined: leila amgoud btpxilfdlreiritfr 3rd international workshop knowledge reasoning answering questions kraq07 special focus knowledge explicitation explanation argumentation responses hyderabad january 6th 2007 new submission deadline 25 september 2006 deadlines september 25 paper submissions october 22 acceptancerejection notification november 1st final papers due cameraready objectives introduction reasoning capabilities questionanswering qa systems appeared late 70s second generation qa systems aimed cooperative emerged late 80s early 90s systems quite advanced reasoning models developed closed domains go beyond production direct responses query particular query response contains misconceptions recently systems javelin inference web cogex operating open domains integrated gradually inferential components advanced 90s performances systems recent trecqa tracks show reasoning components substantially improve response relevance accuracy also potentially much cooperative however still long way able produce accurate cooperative robust qa systems large complexity natural systems need make several communities work together common grounds recent foundational methodological technological developments knowledge representation eg ontologies knowledge bases incorporating various forms incompleteness uncertainty advanced reasoning forms eg data fusionintegration argumentation decision theory advanced language processing resources techniques question processing well generating responses recent progress hlt formal pragmatics user models intentions etc make possible foresee elaboration much accurate cooperative robust systems dedicated answering questions textual data eg online texts web pages operating either open closed domains workshop organized around major questions interest number ai nlp hlt pragmatics people workshop focussed models intelligently cooperatively responding user includes areas ai models processing data coming eg search engines models provide users explanations arguments response contents way elaborated one main question characterization reasoning procedures need developed answer questions either closed open domains user exactly percieves appropriateness response eg response one expects another perspective role pragmatics means example better capture users goals intentions query therefore better organize response arguments justify response pragmatics also importance better analyse potential implicatures user may draw responses particular response direct finally obviously natural language generation connection inferantial mechanisms lead answer major point list topics exhaustive question processing new types questions opinion etc reformulation disambiguisation strategies interpretation models reasoning aspects information fusionintegration detecting resolving query failure due eg incomplete data misconceptions false presuppositions decision making reasoning uncertainty incomplete knowledge models explaining arguing answers knowledge representation integration eg ontologies domain knowledge flexible interactive systems possibly including user model recommender systems pragmatic dimensions user intentions plans goals recognition generation conversational implicatures language processing question processing response production planning argumentation language generation eg lexical choice planning specific linguistic aspects argumentation eg marks connectors explanation production showing sources inferences reporting data incompleteness etc argumentation evaluation eg component evaluation submission goal workshop enhance cooperation participants ai background nlp community contributors must opened interactions different workshop areas programme committee care balanced number participants different areas concerned encourage athmosphere appropriate workshop plan 15mn discussion end session panel future directions intelligent questionanswering different disciplines interact optimally possible plan demos portable machines submission format welcome short papers max 4 pages describing projects ongoing research long papers max 8 pages relate established results papers must sent pdf format format use papers abstracts ijcai please follow ijcai formatting instructions use supplied word templates latex sources title page separate title page needed include following information title authors names affiliations email addresses topics list appropriate abstract short summary 5 lines workshop cochairs contact persons dr leila amgoud qdpqaairitfr dr patrick saintdizier fvrgluomiritfr thu 07 aug 2008 121802 0200 uai ijcai07 workshop knowledge reasoning answering questions