[Corpora-List] 1st CfP: Workshop at LREC 2006 on Multimodal Corpora

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       First Call For Papers

       International Workshop on

        MULTIMODAL CORPORA:
   FROM MULTIMODAL BEHAVIOUR THEORIES
        TO USABLE MODELS

       Saturday 27 May 2006
         1 day workshop 

    http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mmc06/

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In Association with LREC2006 (the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation)
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/
Main Conference 24-25-26 May 2006
Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center
Genoa - Italy

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MOTIVATIONS
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'Multimodal Corpora' target the recording and annotation of several communication modalities
such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, body posture, etc.
Theoretical issues are also addressed, given their importance to the design of multimodal corpora.

This workshop follows similar events held at LREC'2000, LREC'2002 and LREC'2004. 
There is an increasing interest in multimodal communication and multimodal corpora 
as visible by recently launched European Networks of Excellence 
and integrated projects such as HUMAINE, SIMILAR, CHIL and AMI, 
and similar efforts in the USA and in Asia. 
Furthermore, the success of recent conferences dedicated to multimodal 
communication (ICMI'2005, IVA'2005, Interacting Bodies'2005, 
Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication 2005) also testifies the growing interest in this area, 
and the general need for data on multimodal behaviours.

The focus of this LREC'2006 workshop on multimodal corpora will be on non-verbal communication studies
and their contribution to the definition of collection protocols, coding schemes,
inter-coder agreement measures and reliable models of multimodal behaviour that can be built
from corpora and compared to results that can be found in the literature.

Topics to be addressed in the workshop 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 : manual annotation, 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 (information extraction, information retrieval, meeting transcription, multi-modal interfaces, translation, summarisation, www services, communication and clinical studies, HCI design)
- 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 the evaluation of real systems
- Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinated speech, gaze, gesture, facial expressions)

We expect the output of this one day workshop to be:
1) a deeper understanding of the theoretical issues and research questions
related to verbal and non-verbal communication that multimodal corpora should address,
2) how such corpora should be built in order to provide useful and usable answers
to research questions,
and 3) an updated view of state-of-the-art research on multimodal corpora.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- 1st call for paper     	15th December
- 2nd call for paper    	11th January
- Deadline for paper submission (complete paper)    5th February
- Notification of acceptance    1st March
- Final version of accepted paper    23rd March
- Final program    1st April
- Final proceedings    13th April
- Workshop : Saturday 27 May 2006

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SUBMISSIONS
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The workshop will consist primarily of paper presentations and discussion/working sessions.
Submissions should be 4 pages long, must be in English, and follow the
submission guidelines at 
http://www.chi2006.org/docs/chi2006pubsformat.doc

The preferred format is MS word.
The .doc file should be submitted via email to LREC-MM at LIMSI.FR

Demonstrations of multimodal corpora and related tools are encouraged as
well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted).

As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to LREC-MM at LIMSI.FR

a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their
contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions.
Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee.

Submitted papers will be blind reviewed.

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TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE
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The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon session,
There will be time for collective discussions.
For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/

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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Jean-Claude MARTIN
CNRS-LIMSI / Univ. Paris 8-LINC, BP 133, 91403 ORSAY Cedex, France
Email : MARTIN at LIMSI.FR
Web : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/martin/

Peter KUEHNLEIN
Bielefeld University, PO Box 100131, D-33501 Bielefeld
Email: p at uni-bielefeld.de
Web: www.peter-kuehnlein.net

Patrizia PAGGIO
Centre for Language Technology (CST), University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 CPH S
Email: patrizia at cst.dk
Web: www.cst.dk/patrizia

Rainer STIEFELHAGEN  
Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Interactive Systems Labs, ITI, Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131 Karlsruhe
Email: stiefel at ira.uka.de
Web: http://isl.ira.uka.de/~stiefel

Fabio PIANESI
Istituto Trentino di Cultura - Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (ITC-irst), Italy
Email: pianesi at itc.it
Web: http://www.itc.it/irst/Renderer.aspx?targetID=164

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Jens Allwood, Univ. Göteborg, SE 
Elisabeth Ahlsén, Univ. Göteborg, SE
Elisabeth André, Univ. Augsburg, D 
Gerard Bailly, CNRS-STIC, FR
Tom Brøndsted, Univ. of Aalborg
Stéphanie Buisine, ENSAM, FR 
Susanne Burger, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Genevieve Calbris, ENS LSH Lyons & CNRS UMR 8606, Paris, FR
Loredana Cerrato, KTH TMH-CTT, SE 
Piero Cosi, ISTC-SPFD CNR, I 
John Glauert, University of East Anglia
Dirk Heylen, U Twente, NL
Bart Jongejan, CST, DK 
Kostas Karpouzis, ICCS, G
Michael Kipp, DFKI Saarbrücken, D
Stefan Kopp, SFB 360, D, S.
Alfred Kranstedt, SFB 360, D 
Peter Kuehnlein, Bielefeld University, D
Daniel Loehr, MITRE, USA
Ian Marshall, University of East Anglia
Jean-Claude Martin, CNRS-LIMSI, F
Costanza Navarretta, CST, Univ. Of Cph
Patrizia Paggio, CST, D
Catherine Pelachaud, Univ. Paris, FR 
Fabio Pianesi, ITC, I
Isabella Poggi, Univ. Roma Tre, I
Jan-Peter de Ruiter, MPI, NL 
Ielka van der Sluis, U Aberdeen, UK
Rainer Stiefelhagen, Universitaet Karlsruhe, D
Janienke Sturm, Univ. Nijmegen, NL
Peter Wittenburg, MPI Nijmegen, NL
Massimo Zancanaro, ITC, I

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