LINGUIST List 22.2129 Thu May 19 2011 Calls: Pragmatics, Cognitive Sci, Comp Ling, Phonology/Germany Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.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: 18-May-2011 From: Zofia Malisz <gespinlists.uni-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: 05-Jun-2011 Meeting Description: GESPIN2011 Gesture and Speech in Interaction 5 - 7 September, 2011 Universität Bielefeld http://gespin.uni-bielefeld.de/ 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. Registration Fees: For students: 50 EUR Full registration: 100 EUR The conference fee will cover the publication costs of the proceedings, conference package, snacks and drinks during breaks, the conference dinner as well as other organizing costs. Please also visit our website for comprehensive travel recommendations. Confirmed Invited Speakers: Marianne Gullberg (Lund University, Sweden) Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University) Jan de Ruiter (Bielefeld University) Marc Swerts (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) Venue: ZiF, http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/ Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, www.bielefeld.de General enquiries: gespinlists.uni-bielefeld.de Final Call for Papers: We would like to invite you to send in papers, system demos and special session proposals to GESPIN 2011, an international conference on gesture and speech in interaction. Please note that the deadline for paper and system demo submission has been extended to the 5th of June. 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 6. As well as: automatic speech and gesture recognition and synthesis system demos. Papers on all other topics related to speech and gesture are also welcome. Conference proceedings will include a selection of accepted papers and will 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. Please visit our website for publication guidelines and to submit papers and system demos. Planned Dates: Deadline for full papers and system demos: June 5th, 2011 (extended) Acceptance/rejection of full papers and system demos: July 15th, 2011 Early registration July 30th, 2011 Conference: September 5th - 7th, 2011 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/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-May-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.