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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:08:32
From: Birgit Hänel [khaenel at uos.de]
Subject: International Conference on Multimodal Communication

 
International Conference on Multimodal Communication 

Date: 09-Jun-2017 - 11-Jun-2017 
Location: Osnabrück, Germany 
Contact: Mark Turner 
Contact Email: mark.turner at case.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

International Conference on Multimodal Communication: Developing New Theories
and Methods
Osnabrück University, 9-11 June 2017
Conference organizers: Alexander Bergs and Mark Turner

Confirmed plenary speakers:
- Harald Baayen.  Alexander von Humboldt Professor, University of Tübingen.
- Thomas Hoffmann. Professor of Linguistics, Katholische Universität
Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
- Jungseock Joo. Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at UCLA and
Research Scientist at Facebook. “Deep learning and computer vision techniques
for human gesture and facial expression analysis.” 
- Irene Mittelberg. Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics at the
Human Technology Centre (HumTec) at RWTH Aachen University. Mittelberg directs
the Natural Media Lab and the Center for Sign Language and Gesture (SignGes).
''Crossmodal clusters: Mapping linguistic constructions and gestural patterns
via motion-capture data''
- Francis Steen.  Professor of Communication Studies, UCLA. Co-director of the
Distributed Little Red Hen Lab.
- Eve Sweetser. Professor of Linguistics, UC-Berkeley. Coordinator,
UC-Berkeley Gesture and Multimodality Group. Coordinator, UC-Berkeley Matrix
Metaphor research group. Co-PI, MetaNet IARPA research project. ''Viewpoint,
creativity and convention in multimodal constructions.'' 

In addition to plenary talks, parallel sessions, a poster session, and a
conference dinner, the conference will feature, on Saturday and Sunday
mornings, several plenary workshops on methods by leading methodological
experts, each presenting a specific workflow, showing how specific methods can
be applied to transform a research question into finished, publishable
research products. These workshops will cover, among other topics, new
multimodal tools developed in the Red Hen Lab (http://redhenlab.org),
Cinepoetics tools for analyzing film and television, tools for gesture
analysis, tools for automatic computational visual analysis of facial and
gestural communication, and computational tools for finding and analyzing
co-speech gesture in a corpus.

Subsequent messages from the conference organizers will provide the usual
logistical information, including a link to a conference website, and explain
how to submit abstracts for parallel sessions and for a poster session. The
conference will run from about 1:30pm 9 June to about 6:15pm 11 June 2017,
Central European Summer Time.

We thank, for their generous support of the conference, Osnabrück University,
Case Western Reserve University, and the Anneliese-Maier Research Award
program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
 






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