29.3434, Confs: Comp Ling, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Psycholing, Semantics/France

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 01:51:25
From: Jonathan Ginzburg [yonatan.ginzburg at univ-paris-diderot.fr]
Subject: Laughter Workshop 2018

 
Laughter Workshop 2018 

Date: 27-Sep-2018 - 28-Sep-2018 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Jonathan Ginzburg 
Contact Email: laughterworkshop2018 at isir.upmc.fr 
Meeting URL: http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Phonetics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

Following the previous workshops on laughter held in Saarbruecken (2007),
Berlin (2009), Dublin (2012) and Enschede (2015), we have the pleasure to
announce a forthcoming workshop in Paris, France 27-28 September 2018.

Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play
important roles in displaying social and affective behaviors and in
controlling the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short
utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal
vocalisations that have been studied previously from various research fields.
However, much is still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of
non-verbal vocalisations (production/encoding) and their relations to their
intentions and perceived meanings (perception/decoding) in interaction.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from diverse
research areas and to provide an exchange forum for interdisciplinary
discussions in order to gain a better understanding of laughter and other
non-verbal vocalisations. The workshop consists of invited talks, oral and
poster presentations of ongoing research.


Venue:

ISIR, Sorbonne University
http://www.isir.upmc.fr/

Organizers:

Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne University
Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris Diderot
Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland
University&;
Nick Campbell, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences,
Trinity College Dublin;
Khiet Truong, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente/Radboud
University&
Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente

Contact information:

Catherine Pelachaud
CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne University
catherine.pelachaud at upmc.fr
 

Programme:

Thursday 27 September 2018

9:30: 
Introduction

9:45 - 10:45: 
Sophie Scott, voluntary and involuntary mechanisms in laughter production and 
perception.

10:45 - 11:15: coffee break

11:15 - 12:45: 
Session 1

11:15 - 11:45:  
Richard Ogden, The actions of peripheral linguistic objects: clicks

11:45 - 12:15:   
Anna Canal Garcia, Marine Collery, Velisarios Miloulis, Zofia Malisz, 
Classification and clustering of clicks, breathing and silences within speech
pauses

12:15 - 12:45:  
Jürgen Trouvain, On Breath Noises - A Short Review

12:45 - 14:15: lunch

14:15 - 15:30: 
Poster session

15:30 - 16:00: coffee break

16:00 - 17:30: 
Session 2

16:00 - 16:30:  
Pablo Arias, Pascal Belin, Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Hearing smiles and smiling
back

16:30 - 17:00:    
Chiara Mazzocconi, Vladislav Maraev, Jonathan Ginzburg, Clarifying  Laughter

17:00 - 17:30:   
Susanne Fuchs, Tamara Rathcke, Laugh is in the air? Physiological analysis of
laughter as a correlate of attraction during speed dating

Dinner

Friday 28th September 2018

9:30 - 10:30: 
Gary McKeown, The underdetermined nature of laughter

10:30 - 11: coffee break

11:00 - 13:00: 
Session 3

11:00 - 11:30:   
Reshmashree B Kantharaju, Fabien Ringeval, Laurent Besacier, Automatic
prediction of affective laughter from audiovisual data

11:30 - 12:00:   
Magdalena Rychlowska, Gary McKeown, Ian Sneddon, and William Curran, Not only
decibels: Exploring human judgements of laughter intensity

12:00 - 12:30:   
Kevin El Haddad, Hüseyin Çakmak, Thierry Dutoit, A Study of the Perception of
Laughter Intensity AND Laughter Intensity Level Estimation from Acoustic
Features

12:30 - 13:00:  
Jan Michalsky, Heike Schoormann, Phonetic entrainment of laughter in dating 
conversations: On the effects of perceived attractiveness and conversational
quality

13:00 - : lunch

Posters:
Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Killian McCabe, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte:
Cooperating with a smiling avatar: when face and voice matter
Vanessa Pope, Rebecca Stewart, Elaine Chew: Audience Laughter Distribution in
Live Stand-up Comedy
Isabella Poggi, Alessandro Ansani, Christian Cecconi: Sighs in everyday and
political communication
Kevin El Haddad,  Noé Tits, Thierry Dutoit: Annotating Nonverbal Conversation
Expressions in Interaction Datasets
Michel-Pierre Jansen, Khiet Truong, Dirk Heylen: The MULAI Corpus: Multimodal
Recordings of Spontaneous Laughter in Dyadic Interaction





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