28.1940, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics/France

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Subject: 28.1940, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics/France

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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:09:18
From: Julie Hunter [juliejoanna.hunter at upf.edu]
Subject: Foundations of Situated & Multimodal Communication

 
Full Title: Foundations of Situated & Multimodal Communication 
Short Title: FSMC 

Date: 19-Sep-2017 - 19-Sep-2017
Location: Montpellier, France 
Contact Person: Julie Hunter
Meeting Email: juliejoanna.hunter at upf.edu
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/sitcomfoundations/ 

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

Call Deadline: 13-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

Situated or multimodal communication, in which speakers exploit various
aspects of the non-linguistic context to communicate a message, is a fact of
life for face-to-face conversations. Its analysis is of fundamental importance
for modelling the interpretation of everyday conversations and human-robot
interactions. This workshop will bring together both linguists and computer
scientists to discuss foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving
situated and multimodal communication. Relevant topics include: the nature of
the non-linguistic context; the range of ways that gesture and speech exploit
the non-linguistic context and how they exploit it differently; the practical
and/or computational advantages of using non-linguistic context to convey
meaning; methods for measuring the effects of non-linguistic context on
meaning; the exploitation of corpora to analyze multimodal communication;
modelling agents for human-robot interactions; whether and how to ensure that
interlocutors have a coherent vision of the external world; modelling
different perspectives on the same non-linguistic scene; message
disambiguation.


Call for Papers:

We invite submissions on  foundational, conceptual, and practical issues
involving situated and multimodal communication. Relevant questions include
but are not limited to:

What is the nature of the non-linguistic context?
What is the range of ways that gesture and speech exploit the non-linguistic
context and how do they exploit it differently?
What are the practical and/or computational advantages in using non-linguistic
context to convey meaning? 
How can we measure the effects of non-linguistic context on meaning?
How do we exploit corpora to address the task of analysing multimodal
communication?
How should we model agents for human-robot interactions?
Should we ensure that interlocutors' vision of the external world is coherent?
If so, how do we do this?
How do we model cases in which different interlocutors adopt different
perspectives on the same non-linguistic context?
How do we handle the need to disambiguate a message?

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: 13 July 2017 
Notification of acceptance: 7 August 2017 
Deadline for camera-ready version: 4 September 2017 
Workshop Date: 19 September 2017

Submission Instructions:

We invite anonymized submissions of 5 pages (excluding references). Because
accepted workshop papers will be published together with the general program
papers, we ask you to follow the formatting guidelines for the IWCS general
program: 

 https://www.lirmm.fr/iwcs2017/iwcs_instructions.php

Presentation Format:

For each accepted paper, we will decide whether to have an oral or poster
presentation, depending on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop
schedule. 

Paper Submission:

Papers should be submitted through EasyChair using the following link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwcs2017

Workshop Website:

For more information, visit the workshop webpage:

https://sites.google.com/site/sitcomfoundations/

Contact: 

juliehunter at gmail.com

Organizers: 

Rachid Alami
Nicholas Asher
Julie Hunter
Alex Lascarides




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