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 ## Call for participation and extended abstracts
 
-Organised by Mattias Appelgren and Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg
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 * Date: Friday, 29 November (morning)
 * Location: [SLTC](https://sltc2024.github.io), Linköping University, Sweden
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 **Workshop description**
 
-When people hear Artificial Intelligence they often imagine something like Isaac Asimov's Positronic Brain: a brain built out of mathematics, logic, and wires which functions in many respects like a human brain and follows human-like behaviour. It is attached to a body and it can perceive and interact with the world. It has sophisticated language capabilities, speaking about its perception, action and reasoning, follows humanan interactive conventions and follows human social and ethical norms. 
+When people hear Artificial Intelligence they often imagine something like Isaac Asimov's Positronic Brain: a brain built out of mathematics, logic, and wires which functions in many respects like a human brain and follows human-like behaviour. It is attached to a body and it can perceive and interact with the world. It has sophisticated language capabilities, speaking about its perception, action and reasoning, follows humanan interactive conventions and social and ethical norms. 
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+However, a common approach to Artificial Intelligence has been to treat language, perception, action and behaviour as separate fields with distinct tasks and goals. Consequently, most systems that we build do not live-up to the beliefs and expectations of every-day users. Integration of several modalities and constructions of agents that can act in sophisticated ways in the world is therefore our next big challenege if we want to approximate human-like robotic agents that Sci-fi authors love. 
 
-However, a common approach to Artificial Intelligence has been to treat language, perception, action and behaviour as separate fields with separate goals and problems. Consequently, most systems that we build do not live-up to the beliefs and expectations of every-day users. Integration of several modalities and constructions of agents that can act in sophisticated ways in the world is therefore our next big challenege if we want to approximate human-like robotic agents that Sci-fi authors love. 
+This workshop invites researchers in the fields of natural language processing, computer science, language technology, computational linguistics,  computer vision, machine learning, AI, robotics, linguistics, cognitive science, and related fields to participate in an open, community-building forum where we discuss current work, challenges, and future directions related to multi-modality, interaction, embodiment, language technology, and AI in general.
 
-We would like the workshop to explore topics around the follow three questions: (i) what modalities are required to describe human linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour and how they inetract; (i) how can these be modelled in artificial systems both in termns of collecting data and modelling/learning, (iii) are all modelities needed (and agents with these capabilities wanted) by end-users and they assist our collection of knowledge and communication? What aspects of multi-modality should (different) systems integrate?
+In particular we would like to explore the following questions: (i) what modalities are required for human linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour, how they can be represented as data and how they interact; (i) how can these be modelled in artificial systems and learned, (iii) what are the needs and applications of multi-modal systems - are all modelities always required and are completely embodied agents wanted by end-users, (iv) what are privacy and general ethical consideration both in terms of collecting data for training and subsequently using multi-modal systems? 
 
-This workshop invites researchers and students in the fields of natural language processing, computer science, language technology, computational linguistics, cognitive computing, AI, computer vision, machine learning, robotics, linguistics, cognitive science, and related fields to participate in an open, community-building forum where we discuss current work, challenges, and future directions related to multi-modality, interaction, embodiment, language technology, and AI.  
-We encourage contributions in the following and similar topics:
+In particular, we encourage contributions in the following and similar topics:
 * Grounded language understanding and generation
 * Multi-modal or embodied interaction
-* Incremental or Online Learning
+* Incremental or online Learning
 * Low resource learning and adaptation
-* Human-AI Interaction
-* Multimodal Dialogue
-* Interactive Task Learning
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+* Human-AI interaction
+* Multimodal dialogue
+* Interactive task learning
+* Multi-modal data collection
+* Ethical considerations for building and using AI systems
+
 We foresee an open, interactive workshop with plenty of time for discussion, complemented with invited talks and presentations of on-going or completed research.
 
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 Please upload your submissions (zipped in a file name.surname.zip) with your full contact details (names of authors, presenting author, affiliation(s), physical address, email and personal website) at the following [link][https://sigmoid.flov.gu.se/index.php/s/cHEPCyncm99d2S6]
 
+The abstracts will be published on the workshop webpage.
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 **Registration**
 
 Please register for the workshop using the following link (coming soon)
 
 **Workshop organisers**
 
-\* Mattias Appelgren
-\* Simon Dobnik
+\* [Mattias Appelgren](https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/hitta-person/mattiasappelgren) (contact)
+\* [Simon Dobnik](https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/hitta-person/simondobnik)
 
 [1]:	www.gu.se/en/research/language-and-perception-research-group-lp
 [2]:	https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/