OREANDA-NEWS. St. Petersburg, Russia, 25th  April 2013. i-Free, the co-host of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL) – a desktop and empirical research conference on computerized language processing, encourages more potential participants to attend. AINL’2013 will be held on 17-18th May 2013 in St. Petersburg.

This will be the second time that AINL will become a forum for the sharing of ideas and experience for all those interested in new developments in the fields of artificial intelligence and speech processing. Apart from its traditional keynote speech on language processing this year’s AINL will cover robotics, invention patenting, and global marketing. The plenary report will explore the evolution of virtual conversational entities over the past 50 years. A professor from Reading University in the UK, who has devoted years of research to the subject of artificial intelligence, will present the results of her fascinating study comparing the artificial dialogist Eliza with similar modern systems.  

Startups and new businesses may benefit from the presentations on invention patenting and global market rollout. In addition to the main program, the conference will feature two roundtable events: on “WordNet for Russian language” and on “Russian speech recognition/generation and commercial applications for these capabilities”. The demo section will introduce the participants to products that already work using artificial intelligence/language processing technology and language structuring tools. The participants will also meet NAO a robot built by Aldebaran Robotics. We also plan to have a “poster section” which is reserved for research and development projects that are at the “work-in-progress” stage.

This year’s AINL conference will be attended by some eminent international researchers, as well as Russian participants. One of the international presenters is Huma Shah a highly acclaimed expert in Deception Detection and Machine Intelligence in Practical Turing Tests. Other presentations will be on behalf of the Skolkovo Foundation, Ingria Technopark, St. Petersburg State University, Tula State University, PROMT, i-Free Innovations, Yandex, Mail.Ru, Voice Platform and RUSSOFT.

The Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL) Conference premiered last year stirring up much interest in the scholarly and business communities in Russia and beyond. The first AINL saw over 200 participants and 30 speakers, including some of Russia’s leading experts on artificial intelligence.