Second International MultiModal communication SYMposium
Short Title: MMSYM 2024

Date: 25-Sep-2024 - 27-Sep-2024
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Contact: Frank Kügler
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: http://mmsym.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonology; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

The program of MMSYM-2024 in Frankfurt in September 25-27, 2024, is now available and features three keynote speakers, 30 talks and 33 posters!

The keynoote speakers are:
- Dr. Julie Hunter (LinaGora Labs, Toulouse) “Situated Conversation and Conversational Cobots”
- Dr. Judith Holler (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour, Nijmegen) “Producing and comprehending multimodal utterances in face-to-face conversation”
- Prof. Dr. Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University) “The multimodal expression of (non-)understanding in dyadic explanations – some lessons learned”

Deatailed information on the program can be found on the website: http://mmsym.org

Registration for MMSYM 2024 in Frankfurt is open!

The MultiModal Communication Symposium will take place September 25 - 27, 2024 at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Visit our website mmsym.org for more information and to register!

We are looking forward to welcome you in Frankfurt!

2nd International MultiModal communication SYMposium (MMSYM 2024)

The 2nd edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held as the 1st MMSYM in Barcelona (2023), as European Symposia in Leuven (2019), Bielefeld (2017), Copenhagen (2016), Tartu (2014) and Malta (2013), and even earlier as Nordic (2003-2012) and Swedish Symposia (1997-2000). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of visual and acoustic modes of communication. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science.
We welcome innovative contributions in the broader field of multimodal communication. Investigating multimodality extends our knowledge about various ways of communication beyond (spoken) language.

This year’s symposium has a particular interest in three main research themes: (1) The gesture-speech integration, in particular the prosody gesture link, (2) formal, automatic and machine-learning approaches to multimodality, and (3) psycholinguistic approaches in multimodal settings. For MMSYM 2024, we particularly encourage contributions relating to the conference themes.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal data
• Articulation-Gesture-coordination
• Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction
• Formal implementation of multimodality
• Intercultural aspects of multimodal behavior
• Kinematics of bodily movements
• Machine and deep learning techniques applied to multimodal data
• Memory effects in multimodal settings
• Multimodal aspects of language acquisition and learning (both L1 and L2)
• Multimodal communication disorders and communication support
• Multimodal corpora
• Multimodal dialogue systems
• Multimodal health communication
• Multimodal human-computer interaction and conversational agents
• Multimodal language processing
• Prosody-Gesture-Integration
• Semantic and pragmatic functions of multimodality
• Speech and gestures in human communication