LINGUIST List 22.142 Sat Jan 08 2011 Calls: Pragmatics, Cognitive Sci, Computational Ling, Phonology/Germany 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.     Zofia Malisz , GESPIN Gesture and Speech in Interaction Message 1: GESPIN Gesture and Speech in Interaction Date: 05-Jan-2011 From: Zofia Malisz <zofia.maliszuni-bielefeld.de> Subject: GESPIN Gesture and Speech in Interaction E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: GESPIN Gesture and Speech in Interaction Short Title: GESPIN2011 Date: 05-Sep-2011 - 07-Sep-2011 Location: Bielefeld, Germany Contact Person: Zofia Malisz Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://gespin.uni-bielefeld.de/ Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics Call Deadline: 31-May-2011 Meeting Description: Gesture and Speech in Interaction After the first successful conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction 2009 in Poznan, we have the pleasure to announce that the next GESPIN will take place in Bielefeld, 5-7 Sep 2011. The conference is jointly organised by several institutions at Bielefeld University, Germany and Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. With this conference we would like to promote interdisciplinary perspectives that facilitate an efficient understanding of the complexity of multimodal communication. We would like to invite linguists, phoneticians, speech technologists, computer and cognitive scientists as well as researchers from all other fields who share an interest in speech and gesture interfaces to participate in the GESPIN conference. First Call for Papers GESPIN2011 Gesture and Speech in Interaction 5 - 7 September, 2011 Universität Bielefeld http://gespin.uni-bielefeld.de/ Papers on all topics related to speech and gesture are welcome. However this year, we especially invite papers that address prosody and gesture, i.e. timing relations between gesture and prosody, gestural prosody, integration of prosody and gesture, prosody and gesture acquisition using the following methodological foci: 1. Theory building and empirical investigations 2. Modeling of gesture and speech 3. Tools for an integrative analysis of speech and gesture corpora 4. Systems for gesture and speech annotation 5. Neurophysiological and neurobehavioural speech and gesture research, as well as: 6. Automatic speech and gesture recognition and synthesis system demos. We also plan to accept tutorial and special session proposals. Conference proceedings will include a selection of accepted papers and be published on a CD. The possibility of publishing extended versions of conference papers in an edited collection or a special issue of a journal is being considered. Planned dates: Call for special sessions and tutorials: January 2011 Deadline for special sessions and tutorials: April 2011 Deadline for full papers: May 31st, 2011 Acceptance/rejection: July 15th, 2011 Early registration July 30th, 2011 Conference: September 5th - 7th, 2011 Confirmed invited speakers: Marianne Gullberg (Lund University, Sweden) Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University) Jan de Ruiter (Bielefeld University) Marc Swerts (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) Organising Committees: Program Committee Stefan Kopp (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University) Katharina J. Rohlfing (CITEC; Bielefeld University) Jan de Ruiter (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University) Petra Wagner (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University) Maciej Karpiński (CSLP AMU; Institute of Linguistics, AMU, Poznań) Local Organising Committee Petra Wagner Zofia Malisz (conference secretary) Alexandra Kenter (conference secretary) Carolin Kirchhof (conference secretary) Konrad Juszczyk (webmaster, CSLP AMU) Hendrik Hasenbein (webmaster, Bielefeld University) Participating Institutions: Bielefeld, Germany Universität Bielefeld http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ Center for Interdisciplinary Science (ZiF), Bielefeld University http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/ Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence (CITEC), Bielefeld University http://www.cit-ec.de/ CRC 673 Alignment in Communication (SFB 673), Bielefeld University http://www.sfb673.org/ Poznań, Poland Centre for Speech and Language Processing (CSLP), Adam Mickiewicz University http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/cslp/ Venue: ZiF, http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/ Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, www.bielefeld.de General enquiries: zofia.maliszuni-bielefeld.de Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.