LINGUIST List 17.3140: Computational Linguistics/Pragmatics/Text&Corpus Linguistics

LINGUIST List 17.3140

Thu Oct 26 2006

Calls: Computational Linguistics/Pragmatics/Text&Corpus Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Hannah Morales <hannahlinguistlist.org>

Directory 1. Patrizia Paggio, Language Resources and Evaluation

Message 1: Language Resources and Evaluation
Date: 26-Oct-2006
From: Patrizia Paggio <patriziacst.dk>
Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation

Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2006

2nd Call For Papers

Extended deadline for paper submission: 15th December 2006

Multimodal Corpora for Modelling Human Multimodal Behavior

Special issue of the International Journal of Language Resources andEvaluation http://www.springer.com/journal/10579/

Guest editors:J.-C. Martin, P. Paggio, P. Kuehnlein, R. Stiefelhagen, F. Pianesi

This special issue is concerned with behavioral models built fromMultimodal Corpora. 'Multimodal Corpora' target the recording andannotation of several communication modalities such as speech, handgesture, facial expression, body posture, etc.

The focus of this special issue is on multimodal corpora and their use forrepresenting and modelling human behaviors. This includes non-verbalcommunication studies and their contribution to the definition ofcollection protocols, coding schemes, and reliable models of multimodalhuman behaviour that can be built from corpora and compared to results thatcan be found in the literature.

Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:- Studies of multimodal behaviour- Multimodal interaction in groups and meetings- Building models of behaviour from multiple sources of knowledge: manualannotation, image processing, motion capture, literature studies- Coding schemes for the annotation of multimodal video corpora- Validation of multimodal annotations- Exploitation of multimodal corpora in different types of applications(meeting transcription, Embodied Conversational Agent, multi-modalinterfaces, communication and clinical studies, edutainment)- Methods, tools, and best practices for the acquisition, creation,management, access, distribution, and use of multimedia and multimodal corpora- Metadata descriptions of multimodal corpora- Benchmarking of systems and products; use of multimodal corpora for theevaluation of real systems- Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinated speech,gaze, gesture, facial expressions)

The submitted papers might address human-computer interaction if itconcerns human modalities (e.g. 3D conversational gestures rathers than 2Dpen based interaction).

Important Dates

- Deadline for paper submission: 15th December 2006- Notification of acceptance: 15th February 2007- Camera-ready version of accepted paper: 15th April 2007- Target publication date: September 2007

Instructions for Authors

Submissions should be not more than 20 pages long, must be in English, andfollow the submission guidelines at

http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/instr_print_10579.060421.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-126854-p35554703

Extended and revised versions of papers accepted to previous LREC workshopson 'Multimodal Corpora' are encouraged (e.g. Workshops held in Genova in2006, in Lisbon in 2004, in Las Palmas in 2002).

Papers in .pdf format should be submitted via email to MARTINLIMSI.FR a brief email indicatingtheir intention to participate as soon as possible, including their contactinformation and the topic they intend to address in their submissions.