Natural Language Understanding (NLU) related to robot actions and Cyberworlds has become increasingly important in recent years due to rapid advancements in the field of computer graphics, speech recognition, natural language processing, and humanoid robot. It has become easy to create lifelike 3-D animated agents (software robots) and make the agents in Cyberworlds perform actions through spoken dialogues. This workshop aims at discussing important issues related to natural language understanding, spoken dialogues, and building lifelike animated agents that can understand natural language and carry out corresponding actions. We welcome the following subjects.

[2] Theoretical Foundations
Theoretical aspects of spoken natural language, cognitive semantics, pragmatics of natural language, speech acts, cognitive studies of vision and attention, cognitive and social studies of human verbal interaction;

[1] Natural Language Understanding
Syntactic processing, semantic processing, discourse processing, anaphora resolutions, ellipsis handling, ill-formedness, speech recognition, spoken dialogue, discourse managements, speech synthesis;

[3] Lifelike Agents
Intelligent agents, geometric and solid modeling, realtime graphics, computer animation, planning, nonverbal communication, multi-agent systems, human friendly robot.


Paper submission:	25	May,2005
Notice of Acceptance:	1	Aug,2005
Camera-ready paper:	5	Sep,2005
Author's registration:	5	Sep,2005

Language understanding and action control 2001-2005
Supported by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan

Project Leader and Co-Chair
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Co-Chairs
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Masayuki Nakajima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)