22.2129, Calls: Pragmatics, Cognitive Sci, Comp Ling, Phonology/Germany

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Date: 18-May-2011
From: Zofia Malisz [gespin at lists.uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: GESPIN Gesture and Speech in Interaction

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From: Zofia Malisz [gespin at lists.uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: GESPIN Gesture and Speech in Interaction

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Full Title: GESPIN Gesture and Speech in Interaction 
Short Title: GESPIN2011 

Date: 05-Sep-2011 - 07-Sep-2011
Location: Bielefeld, Germany 
Contact Person: Zofia Malisz
Meeting Email: zofia.malisz at uni-bielefeld.de
Web Site: http://gespin.uni-bielefeld.de/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 05-Jun-2011 

Meeting Description:

GESPIN2011
Gesture and Speech in Interaction
5 - 7 September, 2011
Universität Bielefeld
http://gespin.uni-bielefeld.de/

After the first successful conference on Gesture and Speech in Interaction
2009 in Poznan, we have the pleasure to announce that the next GESPIN will
take place in Bielefeld, 5-7 Sep 2011. The conference is jointly organised
by several institutions at Bielefeld University, Germany and Adam
Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, Poland.

With this conference we would like to promote interdisciplinary
perspectives that facilitate an efficient understanding of the complexity
of multimodal communication. We would like to invite linguists,
phoneticians, speech technologists, computer and cognitive scientists as
well as researchers from all other fields who share an interest in speech
and gesture interfaces to participate in the GESPIN conference.

Registration Fees:

For students: 50 EUR
Full registration: 100 EUR

The conference fee will cover the publication costs of the proceedings,
conference package, snacks and drinks during breaks, the conference dinner
as well as other organizing costs. Please also visit our website for
comprehensive travel recommendations.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Marianne Gullberg (Lund University, Sweden)
Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University)
Jan de Ruiter (Bielefeld University)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

Venue:

ZiF, http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/
Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, www.bielefeld.de

General enquiries: gespin at lists.uni-bielefeld.de 

Final Call for Papers:

We would like to invite you to send in papers, system demos and special
session proposals to GESPIN 2011, an international conference on gesture
and speech in interaction. 

Please note that the deadline for paper and system demo submission has been
extended to the 5th of June.

This year, we especially invite papers that address prosody and gesture,
i.e. timing relations between gesture and prosody, gestural prosody,
integration of prosody and gesture, prosody and gesture acquisition using
the following methodological foci:

1. Theory building and empirical investigations
2. Modeling of gesture and speech
3. Tools for an integrative analysis of speech and gesture corpora
4. Systems for gesture and speech annotation
5. Neurophysiological and neurobehavioural speech and gesture research
6. As well as: automatic speech and gesture recognition and synthesis
system demos.

Papers on all other topics related to speech and gesture are also welcome.

Conference proceedings will include a selection of accepted papers and will
be published on a CD. The possibility of publishing extended versions of
conference papers in an edited collection or a special issue of a journal
is being considered. Please visit our website for publication guidelines
and to submit papers and system demos.

Planned Dates:

Deadline for full papers and system demos: June 5th, 2011 (extended)
Acceptance/rejection of full papers and system demos: July 15th, 2011
Early registration July 30th, 2011
Conference: September 5th - 7th, 2011

Organising Committees:

Program Committee:

Stefan Kopp (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University)
Katharina J. Rohl?ng (CITEC; Bielefeld University)
Jan de Ruiter (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University)
Petra Wagner (CITEC; SFB 673; Bielefeld University)
Maciej Karpi?ski (CSLP AMU; Institute of Linguistics, AMU, Pozna?)

Local Organising Committee:

Petra Wagner
Zo?a Malisz (conference secretary)
Alexandra Kenter (conference secretary)
Carolin Kirchhof (conference secretary)
Konrad Juszczyk (webmaster, CSLP AMU)
Hendrik Hasenbein (webmaster, Bielefeld University)

Participating Institutions:

Bielefeld, Germany:

Universität Bielefeld
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/

Center for Interdisciplinary Science (ZiF), Bielefeld University
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/

Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence (CITEC), Bielefeld
University
http://www.cit-ec.de/

CRC 673 Alignment in Communication (SFB 673), Bielefeld University
http://www.sfb673.org/

Pozna?, Poland:

Centre for Speech and Language Processing (CSLP), Adam Mickiewicz University
http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/cslp/

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