Support for student participation in a 2012 AAAI Fall Series Symposium

美国人工智能协会(AAAI)秋季系列研讨会(FSS)是北美情感叙事计算方面的第一次国际会议，汇集了来自一长串贡献学科的参与者。研讨会的目的之一是将学生吸引到一个新的、令人兴奋的多学科领域，在那里仍然更容易吸引专家的注意和指导。这笔助学金的目的是资助被选中参加研讨会的学生的旅费、注册费和住宿费，研讨会将于2012年11月2-4日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿与其他几个AAAI秋季研讨会一起举行。研讨会要求情感叙事和相关领域的计算方面的领导者和研究生以及对这一主题感兴趣的本科生的海报演示的长篇和短篇论文。来自本科生的论文，通过本科生研究经验(REU)和高级研究机会计划(SROP)网络以及单独的毕业生投稿将被仔细指导到海报或短论文资格的水平。研讨会的多格式课程还将容纳特殊的学生会议，特别是有前途但尚未完全发展的想法。AAAI关于情感叙事的计算方面的FSS研讨会为各种相关学科的下一代多学科研究人员进入计算情感叙事研究社区提供了宝贵的机会。预计专题讨论会将吸引代表性不足的人群，并通过更好地理解情感叙事这一人类固有现象，为计算机系统的未来发展提供好处。

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Series Symposium (FSS) is the first international gathering in North America in the field of computational aspects of affective narrative, bringing together participants from a long list of contributing disciplines. One of the aims of the Symposium is to attract students to a new and exciting multidisciplinary area, where it is still easier to attract the experts' attention and mentoring. The goal of this grant is to subsidize travel, registration fees, and housing expenses of students selected to participate in the Symposium which will be held, along with several other AAAI Fall Symposia, on November 2-4, 2012, in Arlington, VA. The Symposium calls for long and short papers both from leaders in the field of computational aspects of affective narrative and pertinent areas and from graduate students as well as poster presentations from the undergraduate students interested in the subject. Papers from undergraduates, attracted through Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Senior Research Opportunity Program (SROP) networks as well as solo graduate contributions will be carefully mentored to the level of poster or short paper eligibility. The multi-format program of the Symposium will also accommodate special student sessions, especially for promising but not fully developed ideas. The AAAI FSS Symposium on computational aspects of affective narrative provides a valuable opportunity for the next generation of multidisciplinary researchers in a variety of pertinent disciplines to enter the computational affective narrative research community. It is expected that the Symposium will attract underrepresented populations as well as provide benefit to future development of computational systems from better understanding of affective narrative as the inherently human phenomenon.