<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
[Apologies for cross-postings]<br>
<br>
DEADLINE EXTENSION: to MARCH 9<br>
<br>
Final Call for Papers
<br>
<br>
Joint ISA-7, SRSL-3, and I2MRT LREC 2012 Workshop on Semantic
Annotation and the Integration and Interoperability of Multimodal
Resources and Tools, <br>
Istanbul, 26-27 May 2012.<br>
<br>
<br>
BACKGROUND<br>
<br>
Three initiatives join forces in this workshop, which is concerned
with issues in semantic annotation for language resources,
especially in relation to spoken and multimodal language data, and
with the interoperability and integration of multimodal resources
and tools. <br>
<br>
ISA-7 is the Seventh Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation,
and forms part of a series of workshops of ISO TC 37/SC 4 (Language
Resources) jointly with ACL-SIGSEM (Computational Semantics). These
workshops bring together experts in the annotation of semantic
information as expressed in text, speech, gestures, graphics, video,
images, and in multiple modalities combined. Examples of semantic
annotation include the markup of events, time, space, dialogue acts,
discourse relations, and semantic roles, for which the ISO
organization pursues the establishment of annotation standards, in
order to support the creation of interoperable semantic resources.<br>
<br>
SRSL-3 is the Third Workshop on Semantic Representation of Spoken
Language in Speech and Multimodal Corpora. In these workshops
researchers convene who are working on speech and multimodal
resources for the semantic annotation of related corpora, and take
their inspiration from the observation that the semantic gap between
the content conveyed by speech and other modalities and their formal
representation is a burning issue in a range of tasks such as
content mining, information extraction, dialogue processing,
interactive story-telling, assisted health care,and human-robot
interaction. <br>
<br>
I2MRT (Integration and Interoperability for Multimodal Resources and
Tools) is an initiative to address infrastructure aspects of the
creation and use of interoperable multimodal resources. The main
objectives of I2MRT are to create awareness of the need to make
multimodal data visible via standardized methods and accessible via
registered data centers; to discuss possibilities of harmonization
and standardization with respect to multimodal annotation schemes
and possible mappings between encoding schemes; to discuss ways to
make cutting-edge technologies available to multimodality
researchers that can currently only be used in specialized labs; and
to build a community that is committed to work further on these
issues.<br>
<br>
<br>
PAPER SUBMISSION<br>
<br>
Submission of papers will be electronically using the START
conference management page of LREC 2012 for this workshop at <a
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/SAIIMRT2012/">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/SAIIMRT2012/</a><br>
<br>
When submitting a paper to the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense,
including also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that
have been used for the work described in the paper or that are a new
result of your research. For further information on this new
initiative, please refer to <br>
<a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012</a><br>
<br>
This 1.5 day workshop has two tracks, one related to interoperable
semantic annotation, and one related to multimodal resources and
tools. For each track, research papers are invited describing
original, unpublished research. Research papers can be either long
(6-8 pages) or short (3-4 pages). Short papers are also invited
describing ongoing or proposed projects or infrastructure-related
activities. All submissions should be formatted in the same way as
submissions for the LREC conference. <br>
Topics for the tracks include, but are not limited to the following:<br>
<br>
Track "Interoperable Semantic Annotation":<br>
<br>
* methodological aspects of semantic annotation<br>
* semantic annotation and semantic interpretation<br>
* the semantics of semantic annotations<br>
* interoperability of spoken and written corpora<br>
* content identification and segmentation in spontaneous speech<br>
* semantic annotation in dialogue, with a focus on multimodality<br>
* segmentation of multimodal interaction data into semantic units<br>
* issues in semantic annotation in specific domains, such as time <br>
and space; relations in discourse and dialogue; semantic roles <br>
and predicate-argument structures<br>
* developments in recent, current, and planned ISO projects on <br>
developing semantic annotation standards.<br>
<br>
<br>
Track "Integration and Interoperability for Multimodal Resources and
Tools":<br>
<br>
* encoding systems in use in multimodal applications<br>
* metadata concepts to describe multimedia/multimodal resources<br>
* attempts to harmonize encoding schemes and to map between them<br>
* cutting-edge multimedia processing technology that may help <br>
multimodality researchers to speed up annotation work <br>
* relevance and god examples of usability solutions to efficiently
deal with<br>
the inherently imperfect results of any recognition technology<br>
* possibilities to create strong data hubs with attention for legal
and <br>
ethical aspects of transferring multimedia/multimodal data<br>
* approaches to the creation of a service-oriented architecture in
this field.<br>
<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES:<br>
<br>
deadline for submitting papers: February 27 EXTENDED to March 9<br>
notification of acceptance: March 23<br>
camera-ready papers: March 30<br>
workshop dates: May 26-27 (1.5 days)<br>
<br>
<br>
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:<br>
<br>
Harry Bunt (co-chair)<br>
Manuel Alcántara-Pla (co-chair)<br>
Peter Wittenburg (co-chair)<br>
Thierry Declerck <br>
Dafydd Gibbon<br>
Nancy Ide<br>
Steven Krauwer<br>
Kiyong Lee<br>
Lorenza Mondada<br>
James Pustejovsky<br>
Laurent Romary<br>
Oliver Schreer<br>
<br>
<br>
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:<br>
<br>
Jan Alexandersson<br>
Stefan Baumann<br>
Jonas Beskow<br>
Paul Buitelaar<br>
Harry Bunt (co-chair)<br>
Thierry Declerck<br>
Alex Fang<br>
Raquel Fernandez Rovira<br>
Annette Frank<br>
Dafydd Gibbon<br>
Koiti Hasida<br>
Nancy Ide<br>
Michael Kipp<br>
Kiyong Lee<br>
Inderjeet Mani<br>
Jean-Claude Martin<br>
Lorenza Mondada<br>
Martha Palmer<br>
Volha Petukhova<br>
Andrei Popescu-Belis<br>
Rashmi Prasad<br>
James Pustejovsky<br>
Laurent Romary<br>
Oliver Schreer<br>
Mark Steedman<br>
Mariet Theune<br>
Isabel Trancoso<br>
<br>
<br>
MORE INFORMATiON:<br>
<br>
For more information please contact either one of the three workshop
co-chairs:<br>
<br>
Harry Bunt, <a href="mailto:harry.bunt@uvt.nl">harry.bunt@uvt.nl</a><br>
Manuel Alcántara Pla, <a href="mailto:manuel.alcantara@uam.es">manuel.alcantara@uam.es</a><br>
Peter Wittenburg, <a href="mailto:peter.wittenburg@mpi.nl">peter.wittenburg@mpi.nl</a><br>
</body>
</html>