Sylvie Saget
About Sylvie Saget
Her research focuses on conversational agents that can talk and act autonomously such as humans, robots, virtual humans - or, generally speaking, any kind of object or system involving social interaction.
Her research focuses on the modeling of reasoning and dialogue via a trans-disciplinary approach mixing philosophy (of Mind + of Science&Technology), logics and psychology. Application areas she is focusing on:
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Interaction management technologies
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Conversational / intelligent agent framework & architectures
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Responsible conception and design methods
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Social agents as tools simulating and testing theories of human intelligence
For more info please visit her LinkedIn profile.
Her scientific journey:
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From Conversational AI to Pragmatics / Dialog modeling
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Pragmatics / Dialog modeling: From an activity / reasoning / process-based approach to the 1rst definition in term of kind of information/data using modern epistemology & cognitive sciences
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From modern epistemology to (Conversational) Agent theory and architecture
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And Back Again
The key notions I am developing: Acceptance a belief-like doxastic state - characterization and representation of tools & much more!
!!! pleasedontstealmywork !!!
An approach initiated more than 15 years ago & 100% designed by myself!!!
PhD Project: "Language as a tool: A rational and cognitive approach"
Sylvie's approach is to refashion rationality starting from a distinction between two types of information (facts and infos related to what to do or use/how to behave) and the specification of corresponding information containers (epistemic mental attitude and memory-box). Based on this distinction regarding types of information & information-containers, she is developing a cognitive and rational approach of cognition, a rational dialog model as well as a cognitive architecture. Sylvie has a transdisciplinary approach mixing Artificial Intelligence with Philosophy of Mind, Formal Models, Cognitive and social psychology as well as Robotics.
Her research interests include Social Cognition, Dialogue modeling/Pragmatics, Cognitive Agent, Language and cognition, Philosophy of Mind, Design & Conception Methods, Ethics and AI
— No worries !! — Whenever she is classified by the lab as a “Past member”/not “PhD student”, Sylvie is an active researcher & PhD student!
But dealing with academic theft and sabotage takes times and deeply constraints how one can make her research public ensuring her name won’t be erased and replaced!! Here in Sweden - together with men & their “friends” at the international level - you may find many women & institutions who actively take part in Matilda effect!