LINGUIST List 22.645 Tue Feb 08 2011 Calls: Computational Ling, Cognitive Science/Finland Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Costanza Navarretta , 3rd Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication Message 1: 3rd Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication Date: 07-Feb-2011 From: Costanza Navarretta <costanzahum.ku.dk> Subject: 3rd Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 3rd Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication Date: 27-May-2011 - 28-May-2011 Location: Helsinki, Finland Contact Person: Jens Allwood Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2011 Meeting Description: The 3rd Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication 27-28 May 2011 Helsinki Description of the Symposium: The 3rd Nordic symposium on multimodal communication aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines who study multimodality in human communication as well as human-computer interaction. The symposium is organised by the Nordic project on multimodal corpora NOMCO (www.http://sskkii.gu.se/nomco/). It continues a tradition established by the Swedish symposia on multimodal communication held in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000, and continued by the two Nordic symposia on multimodal communication held in 2003 and 2005 and the workshop held in Odense in 2009. Human communication is naturally multimodal, involving the interaction of modalities such as speech, facial expressions, hand gestures and body posture. The past two decades have witnessed numerous initiatives and research efforts to improve the state of the art concerning the way in which multimodal communication can be described in its own right, as well as modelled and taken advantage of in computer systems. Such efforts include the collection and annotation of multimodal data, the development of methods for capture and interpretation of multimodal behaviour, and for modelling and generation of multimodal data. The symposium will be of interest to anyone studying multimodal communication. Although it hopes to provide a picture of the current state-of-the-art of multimodal research in the Nordic countries, researchers from outside of the Nordic region are most welcome. Invited speakers: Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (to be confirmed) Topics: Topics addressed in the symposium cover all aspects of multimodal communication, such as: - Speech and gestures in human communication - Intercultural aspects of multimodal behavior - Multimodality aspects of language acquisition - Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents - Multimodal dialogue systems - Multimodal corpora - Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora - Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities - Modality fusion - Motion capture - Eye-gaze recognition - Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data - Evaluation methods for multimodal systems Call for Papers: Submissions: Potential participants are invited to submit one-page abstracts on the topics outlined above. Electronic submissions in word or text format should be sent to Jens Allwood: jens at ling.gu.se There will be a peer-reviewed post-conference publication based on the submissions to the symposium. Important Dates: Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2011 Notification of acceptance: 20 April 2011 Symposium: 27-28 May 2011 Program Committee: (to be confirmed) Elisabetta Bevacqua, CNRS - Telecom ParisTech Nick Campbell, University of Dublin Loredana Cerrato, Acapela Group Sweden Jens Edlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Marianne Gullberg, Lund University John Paulin Hansen, IT University Copenhagen Dirk Heylen, University of Twente David House, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Michael Kipp, DFKI Germany Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University Isabella Poggi, Roma Tre University Andrei Popescu-Belis, Idiap Research Institute Matthias Rehm, Aalborg University Kari-Jouko Räihä, University of Tampere Rainer Stiefelhagen, Karlsruhe University Massimo Zancanaro, Bruno Kessler Foundation Organizing Committee: Elisabeth Ahlsén Jens Allwood Kristiina Jokinen Costanza Navarretta Patrizia Paggio Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-Feb-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.