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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">First Call for Papers</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Third International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC):<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT</SPAN></B><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><A href=""><FONT color=#0000cc>http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emotion-workshop</FONT></A></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><STRONG><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Sunday, 23<SUP>rd</SUP> May 2010</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Mediterranean Conference Centre- </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Valletta Malta<o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>In Association with<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>LREC2010 </FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000cc size=3>http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Main Conference 19<SUP>th</SUP>-21<SUP>st</SUP> <STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">May 2010</SPAN></STRONG></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE>
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Given by the data sparseness – most widely used corpora feature below 30 min <BR>of speech – cross-validation without strict test, development, and train partitions, and without strict separation of speakers throughout partitioning are the predominant evaluation strategy, which is obviously <BR>sub-optimal. Acting of emotions was often seen as a solution to the desperate need for data, which often resulted in further restrictions such as little variation of spoken content or few speakers. As a result, <BR>many interesting potentially progressing ideas cannot be addressed, as clustering of speakers or the influence of languages, cultures, speaker health state, etc..<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Previous LREC workshops on Corpora for research on Emotion and Affect (at LREC 2006 and 2008) have helped to consolidate the field, and in particular there is now growing experience of not only <BR>building databases but also using them to build systems (for both synthesis and detection). This workshop aims to continue the process, and lays particular emphasis on showing how databases can be or<BR> have been used for system building. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Papers are invited in the area of corpora for research on emotion and affect. Topics include, but are not limited to:</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: 14.2pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">+</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></B><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman">Novel corpora of affective speech in audio and multimodal data – in particular with high number of </FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman">speakers and high diversity (language, age, speaking style, health state, etc.)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: 14.2pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">+</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman">Case studies of the way databases have been or can be used for system building<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: 14.2pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">+</SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman">Measures for quantitative corpus quality assessment <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: 14.2pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; 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TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: 14.2pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">+ <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Real-life applica</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman">tions<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; tab-stops: 14.2pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; 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FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">+ <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Evaluations on novel or multiple</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> corpora<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></PRE>
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Final submissions should be 4 pages long, <BR>must be in English, and follow the submission guidelines at LREC2010. Papers need to be submitted via the START page of LREC 2010. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors <BR>will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are <BR>a new result of your research. For further information on this new iniative, please refer to </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000cc size=3>http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Following this initiative, all contributions shall provide an additional corpus description according to a template (with example) provided by the organisers at the time of submission. The information will <BR></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>consist of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">providing site, domain, classes or dimensions with definition, context, language(s), spoken content, type, status, size, speaker and instance numbers, total duration, recording, <BR>encoding and storage details, annotator number, annotation state and format, and partitioning type</I>. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>In addition they are asked to provide audio examples if possible.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to </FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000cc size=3>lrec-emotion@limsi.fr</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address<BR>in their submissions. Submission site: </FONT><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000cc size=3>https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/EMOTION2010/</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></PRE><PRE><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Submitted papers will undergo peer-review.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE<BR></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></PRE><PRE><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="COLOR: #e36c0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>The workshop will consist of a full-day session, and there will be time for collective discussions.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><A href=""><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000cc size=3>http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emotion-workshop</FONT></A></SPAN></FONT></PRE></DIV></BODY></HTML>