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e-technik.uni-ulm.de>Tutorial and Research Workshop on AFFECTIVE DIALOGUE SYSTEMS (ADS'04) June 14 through June 16, 2004 http://www.sigmedia.org/ads04 Deadline for paper proposal submission: now January 31, 2004 INTRODUCTION Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in this Tutorial and Research Workshop on AFFECTIVE DIALOGUE SYSTEMS (ADS04), which will be held at the Kloster Irsee in southern Germany from June 14 to June 16, 2004. After two successful ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops on Multimodal Dialogue Systems at Kloster Irsee, Germany in 1999 and 2002, a discussion of the latest developments in the area of affective multimodal dialogue systems now seems timely. The workshop will focus on the role of affect and emotion in dialogue including e.g. design issues, applications, evaluation and tools. It will provide a forum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists. Prototype and product demonstrations will be very welcome. ADS04 is organised as a collaboration between the Universities of Augsburg, Ulm and Southern Denmark and DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology. We welcome you to the workshop. Elisabeth Andre Intelligent User Interfaces, University of Augsburg, Germany andreMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>2nd Call for Papers: Workshop on XML-based Richly Annotated Corpora 29th May 2004, LISBON, PORTUGAL (LREC 2004 post-conference workshop) XML has become a de facto standard for the representation of corpus resources. It is being used for representing speech and text corpora, multimodal and multimedial corpora, as well as, in particular, integrated corpora which combine different modalities. XML-based representations make it easier to work with richly annotated corpora, which include annotations from different levels of linguistic description or from different modalities. A number of tools have also become available, over the last few years, for creating, managing, annotating, querying such corpora and for their statistical exploration. Although XML is a useful representation language, its use alone does not solve all the problems and choices with respect to the representation style (e.g. stand-off annotations vs. embedded annotations); these are in turn closely linked with questions of the architecture of richly annotated corpora, such as the following: should information from different levels of linguistic description be represented in separate "layers" of the annotation? Should a given information type serve as a grounding for all or some of the others? How to account for interdependencies and interaction between phenomena from different levels of description? How to account for concurrent annotation (one phenomenon, different analyses or theories/approaches)? Such questions and the pertaining corpus-architectural considerations interact with at least two more problem areas: on the one hand with the kinds of research questions and of phenomena to be analysed in linguistic and natural interaction research (which may call for certain architectural solutions), and on the other hand with tools for the creation, annotation, manipulation and exploration of XML-based corpora. The workshop will attempt to address the interplay between the following research areas: 1. XML techniques for corpus representation, i.e.: * Standoff annotation vs. embedded annotation; * Use of XML linking standards for language data (XLink, XPointer, XPath); other ways of ensuring relationships between levels, e.g. through naming conventions; * Concepts of layering in corpora annotated at several levels of linguistic description; types of information grouped together vs. distributed over different "packages" * Hierarchical vs. flat annotation; * the grounding of annotations (e.g. in XML elements vs. in characters?) and its implications; * techniques for the manipulation of XML-based representations for massively annotated corpora; usefulness and relevance of XQuery. 2. Levels of linguistic description and their interaction, i.e.: * Examples of richly annotated corpora: reasons for the choice of the annotated levels; linguistic and natural interactivity research questions which can (only) be solved with richly annotated data; * Interaction between levels: new research questions in linguistics and natural interactivity research which can only be addressed because of observation across levels, across modalities, etc. An example is the use of clustering techniques across different levels: e.g. relevant cooccurrences of phenomena from different levels identified via clustering; * Use and usefulness of concurrent annotations in XML-based corpora; an example is concurrent flat and deep syntactic analysis. 3. Tools for handling richly annotated corpora: Software solutions for, e.g., * corpus creation, transformation, exchange, and validation * interactive annotation; * exploration: query and retrieval, statistical analysis; * corpus management (e.g. wrt. meta-data). Tools presented should be positioned with respect to the questions of corpus architecture and with respect to the research directions discussed above under (1) and (2). The workshop aims at bringing together XML experts, both theorists and practitioners, as well as linguists and natural interactivity researchers working on the definition of corpus architectures, annotation and resource exchange schemes and on tools for the use of multilevel and/or multi-layer annotated corpora. It will provide a forum for the definition of requirements for corpus representations and pertaining tools, discussing at the same time case studies from linguistics and natural interactivity research. WWW-Addresses http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/ http://coli.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/forschung/xbrac/ Organisers * Andreas Witt, Bielefeld University * Ulrich Heid, University of Stuttgart * Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh * Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh * Peter Wittenburg, MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen Program committee * Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh, UK * Ulrich Heid, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Nancy Ide, Vassar College & Loria, USA & France * Henning Lobin, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Gieben, Germany * Dieter Metzing, Bielefeld University, Germany * Joakim Nivre, Sweden * Vito Pirrelli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa, Italy * Laurent Romary, Loria, France * Gary Simons, SIL International, Taxas, USA * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C (MIT), USA * Henry S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK * Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan * Andreas Witt, Bielefeld University, Germany * Peter Wittenburg, MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, Netherlands Submissions Authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only full papers will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 8 pages. Guidelines (Requirements) for Paper Submission: * Submissions must be full papers, not extended abstracts. * It is highly recommended that authors submit papers in the LREC-conference proceedings format (maximum of 8 pages). * Submission in other formats will be accepted (font sizes of 11 or 12 point), however they can be no longer than eight (8) pages including figures, tables, and references, formatted for A4-paper with reasonable margins . * Electronic submission of manuscripts (details in the submission site) is required unless impossible (PDF strongly preferred, Postscript, and ASCII accepted). * An additional title page should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact email address, postal address, telephone, fax and URL as well as five keywords. Important Dates 29th February 2004: Deadline for submission of full papers 29th March 2004: Notification of acceptance 29th May 2004: WorkshopMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue