New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Awarded Papers.- Overview of Awarded Papers - The 22nd Annual Conference of JSAI.- A Japanese Input Method for Mobile Terminals Using Surface EMG Signals.- Evaluation of Similarity Measures for Ontology Mapping.- Network Distributed POMDP with Communication.- Solving Crossword Puzzles Using Extended Potts Model.- Socialized Computers and Collaborative Learning.- Learning Communicative Meanings of Utterances by Robots.- Towards Coordination of Multiple Machine Translation Services.- Ranking Method of Object-Attribute-Evaluation Three-Tuples for Opinion Retrieval.- Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics.- Overview of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 2008.- Multiple Subject Constructions in Japanese: A Dynamic Syntax Account.- Topic/Subject Coreference in the Hierarchy of Japanese Complex Sentences.- Japanese Reported Speech: Against a Direct-Indirect Distinction.- The Dynamics of Tense under Attitudes - Anaphoricity and de se Interpretation in the Backward Shifted Past.- Argumentative Properties of Pragmatic Inferences.- Prolegomena to Dynamic Epistemic Preference Logic.- Monads and Meta-lambda Calculus.- Juris-Informatics.- Overview of JURISIN 2008.- Bootstrapping-Based Extraction of Dictionary Terms from Unsegmented Legal Text.- Computational Dialectics Based on Specialization and Generalization - A New Reasoning Method for Conflict Resolution.- Treatment of Legal Sentences Including Itemized and Referential Expressions - Towards Translation into Logical Forms.- Computing Argumentation Semantics in Answer Set Programming.- Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement.- LIBM 2008 - First International Workshop on Laughter in Interaction and Body Movement.- Laughter around the End of Storytelling in Multi-party Interaction.-Preliminary Notes on the Sequential Organization of Smile and Laughter.- Laughter for Defusing Tension: Examples from Business Meetings in Japanese and in English.- Robots Make Things Funnier.- Laughter: Its Basic Nature and Its Background of Equivocal Impression.