<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-size: 15px;" class="">Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Call for Papers</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">********* <b class="">NLPCC 2019 Explainable AI Workshop </b> ********* </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Oct 12, 2019 | Dunhuang, China</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2019</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/xai.php" class="">http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/xai.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">** Overview **</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Though deep learning has made a big progress in recent years, it appears weak in interpretability of the reasoning process and decision results. Some people consider deep learning in the current stage as alchemy, instead of science. It would raise a big concern while deep learning is applied in mission-critical scenarios. For this reason, the explainable AI have received a great attention from research to industry. This workshop will provide a forum for sharing the insights about explainable AI, exchanging the state-of-the art of explainable AI research and applications, discussing future direction and further work in this area.</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">** Topics **</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The scope of this workshop will include but not limited to:</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Algorithms, tools, frameworks for Explainable AI</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Modified deep learning models with interpretable features</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Structured, interpretable, causal models</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Inferring an explainable model from any model as a black box</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Evaluation for explainablity, metrics and measurement</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Combination of human intelligence (HI) and machine intelligence (MI)</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Explanation interfaces</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Business applications of explainable AI</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in AI</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Ethical aspects and law, legal issues and social responsibility</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">** Paper Submission **</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The manuscripts are expected to be formatted in accordance with Springer style sheets [LaTeX, <a href="http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/dldoc/llncs2e.zip" class="">http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/dldoc/llncs2e.zip</a>] [Microsoft Word, <a href="http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/dldoc/splnproc1703.zip" class="">http://tcci.ccf.org.cn/conference/2019/dldoc/splnproc1703.zip</a>], in PDF format, and submitted electronically through the website <a href="https://www.softconf.com/j/xai2019/" class="">https://www.softconf.com/j/xai2019/</a>. </div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">For first submission, a full paper of 8-12 pages is preferred and an abstract of 1-3 pages is also welcome. After confirmation, the abstract needs to be extended to full paper as final version. All submissions will be peer reviewed by two members of our international program committee. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop orally or as poster and published in the NLPCC 2019 proceedings.</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">** Important Dates ** </div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""> - Paper/Abstract submission deadline: July 20, 2019</b></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""> - Notification: Aug 5, 2019</b></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""> - Camera-ready submission: Aug 15, 2019</b></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">** Workshop Organizers **</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Feiyu Xu, Lenovo Research</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Dongyan Zhao, Peking University</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Jun Zhu, Tsinghua University</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">** Program Committee **</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Haojin Yang, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Jörn Hees, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Sven Schmeier, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Freddy Lecue, CortAIx, Thales, Canada & INRIA, France</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Shixia Liu, Tsinghua University, China</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Hang Su, Tsinghua University, China</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Mengchen Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, China</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Chengqing Zong, Chinese Academy of Science, China</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Jin Zhang, Nankai University, China</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class="">** Local Organizing Committee **</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Yangzhou Du, Lenovo Research, China</div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Gang Chen, Lenovo Research, China</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>