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Preface
This book of Proceedings contains the accepted papers of the first International
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (AIC13). The workshop, held
in Turin (Italy) on 3rd December 2013, has been co-located with the XIII Inter-
national Conference of the Italian Association on Artificial Intelligence.
The scientific motivation behind AIC13 resides on the growing impact that,
in the last years, the collaboration between Cognitive Science and Artificial In-
telligence (AI) had for both the disciplines. In AI this partnership has driven to
the realization of intelligent systems based on plausible models of human cog-
nition. In turn, in cognitive science, the partnership allowed the development
of cognitive models and architectures (based on information processing, on rep-
resentations and their manipulation, etc.) providing greater understanding on
human thinking.
The spirit and aim of the AI and Cognition workshop is therefore that one
of putting together researchers coming from different domains (e.g., artificial
intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, engineering, philosophy, social
sciences, etc.) working on the interdisciplinary field of cognitively inspired ar-
tificial systems. In this workshop proceedings appear 2 abstracts of the talks
provided by the keynote speakers and 16 peer reviewed papers. Specifically 8
full papers (31 % acceptance rate) and 8 short papers were selected on a total
of 26 submissions coming from researchers of 14 different countries.
In the following a short introduction to the content of the papers (full and
short) is presented.
In the paper ”Simulating Actions with the Associative Self-Organizing Map”
by Miriam Buonamente, Haris Dindo, Magnus Johnsson, the authors present a
method based on the Associative Self Organizing Map (A-SOM) used for learning
and recognizing actions. The authors show how their A-SOM based systems, once
learnt to recognize actions, uses this learning to predict the continuation of an
observed initial movement of an agent, predicting, in this way, its intentions.
In the paper ”Acting on Conceptual Spaces in Cognitive Agents” by Agnese
Augello, Salvatore Gaglio, Gianluigi Oliveri, Giovanni Pilato, the authors discuss
the idea of providing a cognitive agent, whose conceptual representations are
assumed to be grounded on the conceptual spaces framework (CS), with the
ability of producing new spaces by means of global operations. With this goal
in mind two operations on the Conceptual Spaces framework are proposed.
In the paper ”Using Relational Adjectives for Extracting Hyponyms from
Medical Texts” by Olga Acosta, Cesar Aguilar and Gerardo Sierra, the authors
expose a method for extracting hyponyms and hyperonyms from analytical def-
initions, focusing on the relation observed between hyperonyms and relational
adjectives. For detecting the hyperonyms associated to relational adjectives, they
used a set of linguistic heuristics applied in medical texts in Spanish.
In the paper ”Controlling a General Purpose Service Robot By Means Of a
Cognitive Architecture” by Jordi-Ysard Puigbo, Albert Pumarola and Ricardo
Tellez, the authors present a humanoid service robot equipped with a set of sim-
ple action skills including navigating, grasping, recognizing objects or people,
etc. The robot has to complete a voice command in natural language that en-
codes a complex task. To decide which of those skills should be activated and in
which sequence the SOAR cognitive architecture has been used. SOAR acts as
a reasoner that selects the current action the robot must do, moving it towards
the goal. The architecture allows to include new goals by just adding new skills.
In the paper ”Towards a Cognitive Architecture for Music Perception” by
Antonio Chella, the author presents a framework of a cognitive architecture for
music perception. The architecture takes into account many relationships be-
tween vision and music perception and its focus resides in the intermediate area
between the subsymbolic and the linguistic areas, based on conceptual spaces.
Also, a conceptual space for the perception of notes and chords is discussed, and
a focus of attention mechanism scanning the conceptual space is outlined.
In the paper ”Typicality-Based Inference by Plugging Conceptual Spaces Into
Ontologies” by Leo Ghignone, Antonio Lieto and Daniele P. Radicioni the au-
thors propose a cognitively inspired system for the representation of conceptual
information in an ontology-based environment. The authors present a system
designed to provide a twofold view on the same artificial concept combining a
classic symbolic component (grounded on a formal ontology) with a typicality-
based one (grounded on the Conceptual Spaces framework). The implemented
system has been tested in a pilot experimentation regarding the classification
task of linguistic stimuli.
In the paper ”Introducing Sensory-motor Apparatus in Neuropsychological
Modelization” by Onofrio Gigliotta, Paolo Bartolomeo and Orazio Miglino, the
authors present artificial embodied neural agents equipped with a pan/tilt cam-
era, provided with different neural and motor capabilities, to solve a well known
neuropsychological test: the cancellation task. The paper shows that embod-
ied agents provided with additional motor capabilities (a zooming motor) out-
perform simple pan/tilt agents even when controlled by more complex neural
controllers.
In the paper ”How Affordances can Rule the (Computational) World” by
Alice Ruggeri and Luigi Di Caro, the authors propose the idea of integrating the
concept of affordance within the ontology based representations. The authors
propose to extend the idea of ontologies taking into account the subjectivity of
the agents that are involved in the interaction with an external environment.
Instead of duplicating objects, according to the interaction, the ontological rep-
resentations should change their aspects, fitting the specific situations that take
place. The authors suggest that this approach can be used in different domains
from Natural Language Processing techniques and Ontology Alignment to User
Modeling.
In the paper ”Latent Semantic Analysis as Method for Automatic Question
Scoring” by David Tobinski and Oliver Kraft, the authors discuss the rating
of one item taken from an exam using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). It is
attempted to use documents in a corpus as assessment criteria and to project
student answers as pseudo-documents into the semantic space. The paper shows
that as long as each document is sufficiently distinct from each other, it is possible
to use LSA to rate open questions.
In the paper ”Higher-order Logic Description of MDPs to Support Meta-
cognition in Artificial Agents” by Roberto Pirrone, Vincenzo Cannella and An-
tonio Chella, the authors propose a formalism to represent factored MDPs in
higher- order logic. This work proposes a mixed representation that combines
both numerical and propositional formalism to describe Algebraic Decision Dia-
grams (ADDs) using first-, second- and third-order logic. In this way, the MDP
description and the planning processes can be managed in a more abstract man-
ner. The presented formalism allows manipulating structures, which describe
entire MDP classes rather than a specific process.
In the paper Dual Aspects of Abduction and Induction by Flavio Zelazek, the
author proposes a new characterization of abduction and induction based on the
idea that the various aspects of the two kinds of inference rest on the essential
features of increment of comprehension and extension of the terms involved.
These two essential features are in a reciprocal relation of duality, whence the
highlighting of the dual aspects of abduction and deduction.
In the paper ”Plasticity and Robotics” by Martin Flament Fultot, the author
focuses on the link between robotic systems and living systems, and sustains
that behavioural plasticity constitutes a crucial property that robots must share
with living beings. The paper presents a classification of the different aspects
of plasticity that can contribute to a global behavioral plasticity in robotic and
living systems.
In the paper ”Characterising Ctations in Scholarly Articles: an Experiment”
by Paolo Ciancarini, Angelo Di Iorio, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Silvio Per-
oni and Fabio Vitali, the authors present some experiments in letting humans
annotate citations according to the CiTO ontology, a OWL-based ontology for
describing the nature of citations, and compare the performance of different
users.
In the paper ”A Meta-Theory for Knowledge Representation” by Janos Sarbo,
the author faces the problem of representation of meaningful interpretations in
AI. He sustains that a process model of cognitive activities can be derived from
the Peircean theory of categories, and that this model may function as a meta-
theory for knowledge representation, by virtue of the fundamental nature of
categories.
In the paper ”Linguistic Affordances: Making Sense of Word Senses” by Alice
Ruggeri and Luigi Di Caro, the authors focus the attention on the roles of word
senses in standard Natural Language Understanding tasks. They propose the
concept of linguistic affordances (i.e., combinations of objects properties that
are involved in specific actions and that help the comprehension of the whole
scene being described), and argue that similar verbs involving similar properties
of the arguments may refer to comparable mental scenes.
In the paper ”Towards a Formalization of Mental Model Reasoning for Syllo-
gistic Fragments” by Yutaro Sugimoto, Yuri Sato and Shigeyuki Nakayama, the
authors consider the recent developments in implementations of mental mod-
els theory, and formulate a mental model of reasoning for syllogistic fragments
satisfying the formal requirements of mental model definition.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the keynote speakers of the workshop: Prof. Christian
Freksa (University of Bremen, Germany) and Prof. Orazio Miglino (University
of Napoli Federico II and ISTC-CNR, Italy) for accepting our invitation.
We sincerely thank the Interaction Models Group of the University of Turin,
Italy (http://www.di.unito.it/ gull/), the Italian Association for Artificial Intel-
ligence (AI*IA, http://www.aixia.it/), and the Italian Association of Cognitive
Sciences (AISC, http://www.aisc-net.org) for their support in the organization
of the workshop, and also the Rosselli Foundation (Fondazione Rosselli), Turin,
Italy, for its logistic support.
We would like also to thank the members of the Scientific Committee for
their valuable work during the reviewing process and the additional reviewers.
We would like to dedicate this book of proceedings to the Prof. Leonardo
Lesmo, unfortunately no longer among us, that strongly encouraged and helped
us in all the phases of the organization of this workshop.
December 2013
Antonio Lieto and Marco Cruciani
AIC 2013 Chairs
Organization
Organizers
Antonio Lieto University of Torino, Italy
Marco Cruciani University of Trento, Italy
Program Committee
Bruno Bara University of Torino, Italy
Cristiano Castelfranchi ISTC-CNR, Italy
Rosaria Conte ISTC-CNR, Italy
Roberto Cordeschi University La Sapienza, Italy
David Danks Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Roberta Ferrario LOA-ISTC, CNR, Italy
Marcello Frixione University of Genova, Italyl
Francesco Gagliardi University La Sapienza, Italy
Salvatore Gaglio University of Palermo and ICAR-CNR, Italy
Aldo Gangemi ISTC-CNR, Italy, and LIPN University Paris13-
CNRS, France
Onofrio Gigliotta University of Napoli Federico II , Italy
Ismo Koponen University of Helsinki, Finland
Othalia Larue University of Quebec a Montreal, Canada
Leonardo Lesmo University of Torino, Italy
Ignazio Licata School of Advanced Studies on Theoretical Method-
ologies of Physics, Italy
Diego Marconi University of Torino, Italy
Orazio Miglino University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Alessandro Oltramari Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Fabio Paglieri ISTC-CNR, Italy
Pietro Perconti University of Messina, Italy
Alessio Plebe University of Messina, Italy
Daniele P. Radicioni University of Turin, Italy
Alessandro Saffiotti Orebro University, Sweden
Marco Tabacchi University of Palermo, Italy
Pietro Terna University of Torino, Italy
Additional Reviewers
Cristina Battaglino
Manuela Sanguinetti