28.4776, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics/Japan

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Subject: 28.4776, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics/Japan

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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:00:20
From: James Pustejovsky [jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu]
Subject: Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions

 
Full Title: Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions 
Short Title: AREA 

Date: 07-May-2018 - 07-May-2018
Location: Miyazaki, Japan 
Contact Person: James Pustejovsky
Meeting Email: jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu
Web Site: http://areaworkshop.org 

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

Call Deadline: 07-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described
by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and
videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in
robotics and HCI.  The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances
in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied
agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as
modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions.  Action
modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions
from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and
formal logic. 

While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the
representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML
and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on ''EVENTS: Definition,
Detection, Coreference, and Representation''), the goals of this workshop are
focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to
events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those
researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI,
robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a
communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This
community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources
regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in
human-computer communication.


Call for Papers:

AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions 

AREA will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day
session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations.

Date: 7 May 2018 Morning Session
Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort
Location: Miyazaki, Japan

We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues
involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and
gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but
are not limited to:

- Dynamic models of actions
- Formal semantic models of actions
- Affordance modeling
- Manipulation action modeling
- Linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text,
icon, video)
- Automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos
- Communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks
- Action language grounding
- Evaluation of action models

Important Dates: 

Deadline for paper submission: 7 January 2018
Review deadline: 1 February 2018
Notification of acceptance: 11 February 2018
Deadline for camera-ready version: 1 March 2018
Early registration deadline: TBA
Workshop Date: 7 May 2018

Submission:

Three types of submissions are invited: 

- Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long (6-8
pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including
references)
- Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages
including references)
- Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or
systems (2-4 pages including references)

Visit http://www.areaworkshop.org/sample-page/ for submission instructions and
a link to the online submission system.

Organizers:

James Pustejovsky  (Brandeis University)
Ielka van de Sluis (University of Groningen)




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