University of Manitoba Faculty of Science Department of Computer Science



Dr. Christel Kemke
Adjunct Professor


Adjunct Professor
e-mail: ckemke@cs.umanitoba.ca
home page: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~ckemke
lab web page: NL-KR Lab

Degrees and CV

Research

Teaching

Service

CHAA-07
Second International Workshop on Communication between Human and Artificial Agents (CHAA'07)
Collocated with The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007)
Silicon Valley, 2-5 November 2007
DEXA 2007
First International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Discovery for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications (KUPA'07)
Regensburg, Germany, 3-7 September 2007
A DEXA 2007 Workshop

Selected Publications


C. Kemke, An Action Ontology Framework for Natural Language Interfaces to Agent Systems (accepted), Artificial Intelligence Review (AIRE), Springer, Netherlands, 2007, accepted.

C. Kemke, "From Saying to Doing" - Natural Language Interaction with Artificial Agents and Robots (pre-print), Chapter 9 in Nilanjan Sarkar (Ed.), Human-Robot Interaction, Special Book Edition by the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, I-Tech Education and Publishing, 2007.

C. Kemke, An Action Representation Formalism for Natural Language Interfaces to Agent Systems, International Journal of Convergence Information Technology, 2(2), 2007, pp.30-36.

P. Irani, P. Shajahan, C. Kemke, VoiceMarks: Restructuring Hierarchical Voice Menus for Improving Navigation, International Journal of Speech Technologies, Volume 9, Numbers 3-4, December, 2006, pp. 75-94.

M. Hasan, V. Manian, C. Kemke, HCP with PSMA: A Robust Spoken Language Parser, IJCAI-07, Third International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning NeSy'07, Hyderabad, India, January 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 230, 6 pages.

C. Kemke and E. Walker, Planning through Integrating an Action Abstraction and a Plan Decomposition Hierarchy, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Agent Technology Conference IAT-2006, Hong Kong, December 2006, 474-451.

C. Kemke, An Architectural Framework for Natural Language Interfaces to Agent Systems. Special Session "Natural Language Processing for Real Life Applications", IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence CI-2006, San Francisco, CA, November 2006, pp. 371-376.

C. Kemke, Action Representation for Natural Language Interfaces to Agent Systems. IEEE CS Proceedings International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology (ICHIT-2006), Vol.2, Cheju, Korea, Nov. 2006, pages 1-5.

C. Kemke, R. Galka and M. Hasan, Towards an Intelligent Interior Design System, Second International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC-06), Workshop "Intelligent Virtual Design Environments (IVDEs)", Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 9 July 2006, 13 pages.

C. Kemke, Natural Language Communication between Human and Artificial Agents. In: Zhon-Zhi Shi (ed.), Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems: Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2006), Guilin, China, August 2006, pp. 84-93.

C. Kemke and S. Mithun, Verbalization Enhanced Tutoring, Florida Artifical Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS-2006), Melbourne Beach, Florida, 11-13 May 2006, pp. 541-543.

C. Kemke, Natural Language Control of Agent Systems, or "How to Talk to Your Toaster", Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2005), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2005.

C. Kemke and Students, Speech and Language Interfaces for Agent Systems, Proceedings IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2004), Beijing, China, September 2004, pp.565-566.

C. Kemke and S. Mithun, Development of an Intelligent Tutor for Description Logics, KI-2004 Workshop on Applications of Description Logics - ADL'04, Ulm, Germany, September 2004, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 115, 12 pages.

C. Kemke, A Formal Theory for Describing Action Concepts in Terminological Knowledge Bases, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2003, Halifax, Canada, June 2003, In: Y. Xiang, B. Chaib-draa (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2671, Springer, 2003, pp. 458-465.

C. Kemke, A Constructive Approach to Parsing with Neural Networks - The Hybrid Connectionist Parsing Method, In: R. Cohen, B. Spencer (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, (AI 2002), Calgary, Canada, June 2002, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2338, Springer, 2002, pp. 310-318.

C. Kemke, Generative Connectionist Parsing with Dynamic Neural Networks, Proceedings of The Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks (NLPNN 2001), Tokyo , Japan, 2001, pp. 31-38.

C. Kemke, About the Ontology of Actions, Technical Report MCCS-01-328, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, 2001.

C. Kemke, What Do You Know about Mail? Knowledge Representation in the SINIX Consultant, Artificial Intelligence Review, 14(3), 2000, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, pp. 253-275. Reprinted in: S. J. Hegner, P. Mc Kevitt, P. Norvig, R. Wilensky (eds.): Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, USA & Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2001, 424 p., ISBN: 978-0-7923-6641-6. Available on Amazon.ca.