30.1834, Calls: Discipline of Linguistics/Belgium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-1834. Tue Apr 30 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.1834, Calls: Discipline of Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:17:59
From: Bert Oben [bert.oben at kuleuven.be]
Subject: Symposium on Multimodal Communication

 
Full Title: Symposium on Multimodal Communication 
Short Title: MMSYM 2019 

Date: 09-Sep-2019 - 10-Sep-2019
Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Contact Person: Bert Oben
Meeting Email: bert.oben at kuleuven.be
Web Site: http://mmsym.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-May-2019 

Meeting Description:

The 2019 edition of the MMSYM Symposium zooms in on the theme of Multimodal
Interaction, with a specific focus on corpus-based and experimental approaches
to multimodal interaction in spoken and signed language. Recent
corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work has provided evidence for
multimodal patterns in face-to-face communication as the most basic form of
human interaction. The MMSYM aims to provide a forum for this particular line
of research.


Call for Papers:

Deadline extended until 10 May, 2019

Call for papers for 6th European and 9th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal
Communication
Local organizers: Research group MIDI (Multimodality, Interaction &
Discourse), University of Leuven
Conference data: September 9-10, 2019
Website: http://mmsym.org/ 

The 6th European and 9th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication aims to
provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines
who study multimodality in human communication as well as in human-computer
interaction. The 2019 edition of the MMSYM symposium is organized by the MIDI
research group (Multimodality, Interaction & Discourse) based at the
Linguistics Department of the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Topics:

The 2019 edition of the MMSYM Symposium zooms in on the theme of Multimodal
Interaction, with a specific focus on corpus-based and experimental approaches
to multimodal interaction in spoken and signed language. Recent
corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work has provided evidence for
multimodal patterns in face-to-face communication as the most basic form of
human interaction. The MMSYM aims to provide a forum for this particular line
of research.

Apart from this specific theme, the symposium is open for contributions
covering all aspects of multimodal communication, including but not limited
to:

- Speech, gestures and signs in human communication
- Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour
- Multimodality aspects of language acquisition (both L1 and L2)
- Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents
- Multimodal systems for sign language users
- Multimodal health communication
- Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support 
- Multimodal dialogue systems
- Multimodal corpora
- Sign language corpora
- Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora
- Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their
interaction
- Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data
- Evaluation methods for multimodal systems

Submission guidelines:

We invite proposals for paper presentations of up to 500 words, including
references. If relevant, links to multimedia clips that are made available
online can be included in the abstract. All references to authors should be
omitted for purposes of blind review.

Abstracts should be submitted as pdf files and sent to mmsym at kuleuven.be
before 10 May 2019. Please make sure to add the following information in the
body of that e-mail:
- names of authors
- title
- preferred presentation format (i.e. presentation or poster)

*Important dates*
- Deadline for abstract submissions: 10 May, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: 20 May, 2019
- Revised abstracts: 15 August, 2019
- Symposium dates: 9-10 September, 2019




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