LINGUIST List 21.4948 Wed Dec 08 2010 Calls: Cognitive Science, Computational Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics/USA Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Bjoern Schuller , EmoSPACE 2011 Message 1: EmoSPACE 2011 Date: 08-Nov-2010 From: Bjoern Schuller <schullertum.de> Subject: EmoSPACE 2011 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: EmoSPACE 2011 Short Title: EmoSPACE Date: 24-Mar-2011 - 25-Mar-2011 Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA Contact Person: Bjoern Schuller Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emospace Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics Call Deadline: 14-Dec-2010 Meeting Description: 1st International Workshop on Emotion Synthesis, rePresentation, and Analysis in Continuous spacE In conjunction with the IEEE FG 2011 Santa Barbara, 24./25. March, 2011 Human affective behaviour is multimodal, continuous and complex. Despite major advances within the affective computing research field, modelling, analysing, interpreting and responding to human affective behaviour still remains as a challenge for automated systems as emotions are complex constructs, with fuzzy boundaries and with substantial individual variations in expression and experience. Therefore, affective and behavioural computing researchers have recently invested increased effort in exploring how to best model, analyse and interpret the subtlety, complexity and continuity of affective behaviour in terms of latent dimensions and appraisals, rather than in terms of a small number of discrete emotion categories. The key aim of this workshop is to present cutting-edge research and new challenges in automatic, dimensional and continuous analysis and synthesis of human emotional behaviour in an interdisciplinary forum of affective and behavioural scientists. More specifically, the workshop aims (i) to bring forth existing efforts and major accomplishments in modelling, analysis and synthesis of emotional expressions in dimensional and continuous spaces, (ii) while encouraging the design of novel applications in context as diverse as human computer and human-robot interaction, clinical and biomedical studies, learning and driving environments, and entertainment technology, and (iii) to focus on open issues and new challenges in the field. The workshop will also bring together two Keynote Speakers who are leading experts in modelling and analysis of naturalistic emotions in dimensional and continuous spaces. http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emospace http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/EmoSPACE-IEEE-FG2011-CFP.pdf Workshop Organisers: Hatice Gunes, Imperial College London, UK, h.gunesimperial.ac.uk Björn Schuller, Technische Universität München, Germany, schullertum.de Maja Pantic, Imperial College London, UK, m.panticimperial.ac.uk Roddy Cowie, Queen's University Belfast, UK, R.Cowiequb.ac.uk Program Committee: Anton Batliner, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze, University College London, UK Felix Burkhardt, Deutsche Telekom, Germany Antonio Camurri, University of Genova, Italy Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA Ginevra Castellano, Queen Mary University of London, UK Sidney D'Mello, University of Memphis, USA Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates, USA Kostas Karpouzis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Dana Kulic, University of Waterloo, Canada Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS, France Thierry Pun, University of Geneva, Switzerland Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK Michel Valstar, Imperial College London, UK Call for Papers While this conference is highly interdisciplinary in nature, we seek contributions from linguists on how language is displayed in natural languages, and the implications this may have for computational affect modelling in dimensional space. How humans interpret emotional cues in various contexts and cultures poses an interesting challenge for translating emotion in computing research. For this reason, we appeal to linguists in relevant areas of computational linguistics, cognitive science, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics for insight on pursuing our objectives. Suggested workshop topics include, but are by no means limited to: Modalities and cues for dimensional emotion recognition - Facial expressions - Head movements and gestures - Body postures and gestures - Audio (e.g., speech, non-linguistic vocalisations, etc.) - Bio signals (e.g., heart, brain, thermal signals, etc.) Automatic analysis and prediction: - Approaches for discretised and continuous prediction of emotions - Identifying appropriate classification and prediction methods - Introducing or identifying optimal strategies for fusion - Techniques for modelling high inter-subject variation - Approaches to determining duration of emotions for automatic analysis Data acquisition and annotation: - Elicitation of emotions - Individual variations (interpersonal and cognitive issues) - (Multimodal) naturalistic data sets annotated in dimensional spaces - (Multimodal) annotation tools for dimensional emotions - Modelling annotations from multiple raters and their reliability Applications: - Interaction with robots, virtual agents, and games (including tutoring) - Single and multi-user smart environments (e.g., in a car) - Implicit (multimedia) tagging - Clinical and biomedical studies (e.g., autism, depression, pain etc.) Important Dates: Paper Submission: 14 December 2010 Notification of Acceptance: 12 January 2011 Camera Ready Paper: 19 January 2011 Workshop: 24 or 25 March 2011 (t.b.a.) 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