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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>=== EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2017 ===<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) Special Track on<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>Deep</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>Learning</span>, Knowledge Representation, and Reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>(</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="http://www.jair.org/specialtrack-dlkrr-call.html" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1155CC'>http://www.jair.org/specialtrack-dlkrr-call.html</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>We are pleased to invite papers for submission to a JAIR special track on<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>deep</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>learning</span>, KR, and reasoning, as such also naturally targeting work in neural-symbolic integration and related areas. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>The recent success of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>deep</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>neural networks at tasks such as language modelling, computer vision, and speech recognition has attracted considerable interest from industry and academia. Achieving a better understanding and widespread use of such models involves the use of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning together with sound Machine<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>Learning </span>methodologies and systems.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>The goal of the special track is to serve as a home for the publication of leading research in<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>deep</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>learning</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>towards cognitive tasks, focusing on applications of neural computation to advanced AI tasks requiring knowledge representation and reasoning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: knowledge extraction and reasoning using<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>deep</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>networks, the representation of rich symbolic knowledge by neural systems, the integration of logic and probabilities using neural networks, structure<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>learning</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>and relational<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>learning</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>using recurrent networks, neural-symbolic cognitive agents and models, theory revision and transfer<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>learning</span><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>with neural networks, applications in natural language understanding, visual intelligence, audio, music and signal processing, multimodal<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><span class=il>learning</span>, education and assessment, and other tasks of a cognitive nature.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>The timetable for the special track looks as follows:</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>Deadline for submissions (EXTENDED): February 28, 2017</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>First round of notifications: end of May 2017</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>Deadline for re-submissions: end of August, 2017</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>Final notifications: end of October, 2017</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>Final manuscripts due: end of November, 2017</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>We hope that this special track will provide a forum to our communities for showcasing highest-quality research and application work, by this establishing a repository which can serve as a form of "academic reference beacon" for future work to build upon.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white'>Further details concerning submission formats and procedure can be found at </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><a href="http://www.jair.org/specialtrack-dlkrr-call.html" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1155CC'>http://www.jair.org/specialtrack-dlkrr-call.html</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>On behalf of the track editor and all associate editors,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Tarek R. Besold (University of Bremen, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Artur D’Avila Garcez (City University London, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Kristian Kersting (TU Dortmund, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>