My potential academic communities

Here I would like to introduce some academic communities which are related to me at present or in the future.

The first communitiy I would like to introduce is AAAI. Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (formerly the American Association for Artificial Intelligence) is a nonprofit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines [1]. The community of AAAI publishes books, proceedings, reports and grants.

The second community I may joint in in the future may be HCI community. Although my research is more close to technology, the current trend is combining technology and people. HCI as an interface between people and machine will achieve more and more attentions from technical persons. One community in HCI is CHI conference, which is the leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about human-computer interaction (HCI). [2]

The third community related to me is a community around NLP (natural language processing). Now more and more contents represented in an electronic form are availabe on the internet. Search engines provide us a convenient tool to find the webpages we want to read. However, in order to achieve better results, NLP should be used in order to understand the detailed information embeded in webpages. One community about NLP is conference, which covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction.[3]

Reference:

[1] AAAI, http://www.aaai.org/home.html

[2] CHI,  www.acm.org/pubs/contents/proceedings/series/chi/

[3] ACL, http://www.aclweb.org/