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Date: 11-Feb-2010
From: Björn Schuller < schuller at tum.de >
Subject: Third LREC Workshop on Emotion

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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:14:35
From: Björn Schuller [schuller at tum.de]
Subject: Third LREC Workshop on Emotion

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Full Title: Third LREC Workshop on Emotion 
Short Title: EMOTION 

Date: 23-May-2010 - 23-May-2010
Location: Valletta, Malta 
Contact Person: Bjoern Schuller
Meeting Email: lrec-emotion at limsi.fr
Web Site: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emotion-workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2010 

Meeting Description:

Third International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC):
Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect
http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emotion-workshop

Sunday, 23rd May 2010
Mediterranean Conference Centre
Valletta Malta

In Association with
7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2010
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/
Main Conference 19th-21st May 2010 

Final Call for Papers

Recognition of emotion in speech has recently matured to one of the key
disciplines in speech analysis serving next generation human-machine and -robot
communication and media retrieval systems. However, compared to automatic speech
and speaker recognition, where several hours of speech of a multitude of
speakers in a great variety of different languages are available, sparseness of
resources has accompanied emotion research to the present day: genuine emotion
is hard to collect, ambiguous to annotate, and tricky to distribute due to
privacy preservation.

The few available corpora suffer from a number of issues owing to the
peculiarity of this young field: as in no related task, different forms of
modelling reaching from discrete over complex to continuous emotions exist, and
ground truth is never solid due to the often highly different perception of the
mostly very few annotators. Given by the data sparseness - most widely used
corpora feature below 30 min 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 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, many
interesting potentially progressing ideas cannot be addressed, as clustering of
speakers or the influence of languages, cultures, speaker health state, etc..

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 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 have been used for system building.

Papers are invited in the area of corpora for research on emotion and affect.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

Novel corpora of affective speech in audio and multimodal data - in particular
with high number of speakers and high diversity (language, age, speaking style,
health state, etc.)

Case studies of the way databases have been or can be used for system building
Measures for quantitative corpus quality assessment 
Standardization of corpora and labels for cross-corpus experimentation 
Mixture of emotions (i.e. complex or blended emotions) 
Real-life applications
Long-term recordings for intra-speaker variation assessment 
Rich and novel annotations and annotation types 
Communications on testing protocols 
Evaluations on novel or multiple corpora

Organizing Committee
Laurence Devillers / Björn Schuller
LIMSI-CNRS, France

Roddy Cowie / Ellen Douglas-Cowie
Queen's University, UK

Anton Batliner
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Contact: Laurence Devillers and Björn Schuller, lrec-emotion at limsi.fr

Important Dates
Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission: 1st March (NEW)
Notification of acceptance: 12th March
Final version of accepted paper : 22nd March
Workshop full-day: 23rd May

Submissions
The workshop will consist of paper and poster presentations.

Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster must consist of about
1500-2000 words. Final submissions should be 4-8 pages long, 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 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 a new result of your
research. For further information on this new initiative, please refer to
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources

Submission site:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/EMOTION2010/

Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organizing
Committee.

Submitted papers will undergo peer-review.

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