CALL FOR PAPERS

AI-ED'03 Workshop on Technologies for Electronic Documents for 
Supporting Learning.

http://www.ted.cmis.csiro.au/TEDforLearning

Traditional Intelligent Tutoring Systems deal with structured domains 
where the learning topics are defined and structured according to 
instructional methods. In the real world there is often the need to 
draw on other sources of knowledge and expertise in order to complete 
one's task and learn from one's own and others'
experiences. This 
workshop explores how to complement traditional e-learning techniques 
with technologies for electronic documents in order to assist e-
learning. 

We use the phrase "technologies for electronic documents" to mean 
processes and algorithms that operate on unprocessed electronic 
content. Techniques being developed in the information retrieval and 
knowledge management communities, for example, analyse the document 
content to extract information which can be used for improved search 
or to discover non-explicit relationships between documents and 
people and between people. Other approaches analyse documents written 
by group members during a particular task, categorise the documents 
according to the task and record the interaction and analysis for 
later use. One other area of research is concerned with techniques 
for presenting and delivering a customised form of the electronic 
content to the user. 

In the context of education, these technologies can be used to: 
* Find the right expert 
* Find the right peers 
* Find the right sources of information 
* Use corporate/group memory to help learning 
* Deliver the right information in the right manner 
* Access and organise group discussions to aid learning and
revision 

The discussion will be focussed on the role of technologies for 
electronic documents for the design of future intelligent learning 
environments. 

Likely participants are expected to include researchers in Artificial 
Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, Natural 
Language Processing and Information Extraction communities. We 
solicit contributions and participants to examine the use of 
technologies for electronic documents in the context of an ILE and to 
look at the implications from a learner perspective as well as from 
an instructional perspective. As the AIED community knows learning in 
the real world is not limited to instructional courses but makes use 
of many different sources of knowledge. ILE systems attempt to reduce 
the structured nature of traditional ITS systems. This workshop aims 
to enrich that environment by making available more types of 
information and expertise to the learner. It is an attempt to show 
where links between the AIED community and the information retrieval 
and knowledge management communities can be established. 

Submission Instructions: All submissions must be sent to the workshop 
chairs by email as a word, postscript or pdf attachment. Papers will 
be fully reviewed and accepted papers will be presented at the 
workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings with an 
ISBN number. At least one author of accepted papers is expected to 
register to the main conference. 

Important Dates and Deadlines:

21st of March 03: Expression of interest (a short paragraph 
describing contribution). 
18th of April 03: Deadline for papers submission (position paper or 
full paper). 
9th of May 03:    Notification of acceptance/rejection. 
6th of June 03:   Deadline for camera-ready papers. 
20 or 21 July 03: Date of Workshop. 

Workshop committee:

Leila Alem (Chair)
CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences
Leila.Alem@csiro.au

Alistair McLean (Chair)
CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences
Alistair.McLean@csiro.au

Kalina Yacef (Sydney University, Australia)
Gordon Mc Calla (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Peter Eklund (Griffith University, Australia)
Jim Greer (Uni of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Anne-Marie Vercoustre (CMIS, Australia)
Cecile Paris (CMIS, Australia)
Ross Wilkinson (CMIS, Australia)

Workshop format: The workshop will consist of a sequence of short 
presentations followed by open round table discussions