Our paper: Dynamic Action Selection Using Image Schema-based Reasoning for Robots,
Written by Maria M. Hedblom, Mihai Pomarlan Robert Porzel, Rainer Malaka and Michael Beetz,
Has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of CAOS held at the Joint Ontology Workshops in Bolzano, Italy (September, 2021).
A paper we wrote on impossible blends and noun-noun compound words has been accepted for publication at the International Computational Creativity Conference held in September.
The paper has the title “Deciphering The Cookie Monster: A case study in impossible combinations“ and is written by
Maria M. Hedblom, Guendalina Righetti and Oliver Kutz.
Despite having a wonderful learning experience at Bremen University, in August, I will start a new position as a tenured assistant professor (Lektor) at Jönköping Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (JAIL), at Jönköping University.
I am sad to leave my current research group, but excited to see what comes next.
The collaborative paper “Asymmetric Hybrids: Dialogues for Computational Concept Combination” championeered by Guendalina Righetti has been accepted to FOIS 2021.
Authors include: Guendalina Righetti, Daniele Porello, Nicolas Troquard, Oliver Kutz, Maria Hedblom and Pietro Galliani
I am currently mentoring two students for the Red Hen Lab as part of Google Summer of Code.
First project is:
Simulating Multimodal Communication in Vervet Monkeys with Braitenberg Vehicles
Student: Ankit Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
supervised by: Francis Steen, Maria Hedblom, Cristobal Pagan Canovas, Mark Turner,, Javier Valenzuela
Read more about the project on the student’s blog and Github repository.
The second is:
Detecting Joint Meaning Construal by Language and Gesture
Student: Nickil Maveli, University of Edinburgh
supervised by: Suzie Xi, Francis Steen, Javier Valenzuela, Anna Wilson, Maria Hedblom, Mark Turner, Frederico Belcavello, Tiago Torrent
Read more about the project on the student’s blog and Github repository.
Now we have it confirmed that CAOS V will be taking place at JOWO@FOIS 2021, Bozen-Bolzano in September.
Stay tuned! We will soon update the website and send out call for papers for those who wants to join the workshop!
Check the website for previous editions of the workshop:
This week, the TransAIR workshop on cognitive architectures with the purpose to create new and exciting research collaborations is taking place. The organisers asked me to participate as a moderator to some of the invited speakers’ Q&A sessions as well as host one of the panel discussions.
The event is free of charge and more information can be found here:
https://transair-bridge.org/workshop-2021/
Invited by prof. Mark Turner to be a mentor at Red Hen Google Summer of Code 2021.
It has now been confirmed that in February I will be joining Prof. Beetz’s cognitive robotics group at Bremen University working in the EASE collaborative research centre and the Horizon 2020 project MUHAI.
A week ago I was invited to hold a talk at the Horizon 2020 project MUHAI’s kick-off meeting in Venice. My talk was called “What’s the meaning of this?” and concerned the role image schemas play in meaning formation for AI.
On Tuesday I am invited to JAIL, Jönköping’s AI Lab, to hold another presentation on the role image schemas play in the future of AI. The talk is called “Image Schemas: Puzzle pieces of thought to ground meaning in AI.”