30.3861, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing/Greece

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Subject: 30.3861, Calls: Applied Ling, Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing/Greece

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Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 06:54:34
From: Marietta Sionti [marietsionti at gmail.com]
Subject: Workshop on Measurements in Linguistic Studies

 
Full Title: Workshop on Measurements in Linguistic Studies 
Short Title: LingMeasure 

Date: 18-Dec-2019 - 18-Dec-2019
Location: Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Stella Markantonatou
Meeting Email: elosisEUproject at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.athenarc.gr/el/events/workshop-measurements-linguistic-studies 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

The grounding of language to behavioral data is dictated by everyday
experience because humans use the same verbal means to refer to tasks that
they perform using different modalities, for instance, the verb‘eat’ denotes,
among others, a combination of movements of the hands and of the mouth and its
parts along with a strong haptic component. It seems then that language is
able to denote complex systems of kinaesthetic events. The combined study of
the different modalities could be seen as a quest for the better understanding
of the notion “linguistic sign”, in other words, of the relation between the
signifier and the signified. It could also be seen as an effort to clarify
whether modalities are the prism through which we see the world or, whether
they are our mind’s expression. State-of-the-art research in linguistics
collects visual, acoustic, haptic, kinesthetic and electrophysiological data
with methods such as eyetracking glasses, electroencephalography and motion
and electrodermal activity capture. It often studies multimodal data together
with symbolic representations of linguistic data, for purposes that range from
revealing the mechanisms of language comprehension (for instance, with
eye-tracking and rating experiments in psycholinguistics) to developing author
authentication methods (for instance, through typewriting pattern recognition)
to studying brain diseases (for instance, using eyetracking to study
developmental and acquired language disorders).

Mutlimodal studies on various aspects of work on Modern Greek have been going
on for some time. Ιn this workshop, we would like to bring together
researchers who adopt multimodal experimental methods in Greek Linguistics and
offer a comprehensive view of the ongoing work.

Invited Speakers:

Maria Kampanaros, Cyprus University of Technology, Department of
Rehabilitation Sciences
Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware, Department of Psychological and Brain
Science
Spyridoula Varlokosta, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department
of Linguistics


Call for Papers:

We invite two-page abstracts including references (11pt, single space, margins
2cm). It is our intention to publish selected contributions with an academic
publisher (to be announced soon). 

Topics (non-exhaustive):

- analysis of current behavioral and language models 
- research methodology for the better understanding of language disorders 
- mechanisms involved in language and memory and their interaction with visual
input 
- computational modeling of human vision and language 
- human-robot interaction 
- image and video labeling and annotation 
- machine learning models across different modalities 
- multimodal human-computer interaction 
- multimodal spatial semantics recognition 
- novel tasks which combine language and behavioral data 
- understanding the relationship between language and behavioral data 
- multimodal grounded language understanding 
- language annotation schemes

PhD students/Postdocs: Limited support is available for 2-3 presenters (please
indicate it at your submission email)

Important Dates:

31 October 2019: Deadline for Workshop Papers 
15 November 2019: Notification of acceptance 
18 December 2019: Workshop Date 

Venue:

B & M Theocharakis Foundation of the Fine Arts and Music
9, Vas. Sofias Avenue & 1, Merlin Str. 10671, Athens, Greece

Organizers:

Evita Fotinea, Institute for Speech and Language Processing/Athena RIC
Stella Markantonatou, Institute for Speech and Language Processing/Athena RIC
George Mikros, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Marietta Sionti, Institute for Speech and Language Processing/Athena RIC
 
Committee:

Chrysovalantis Korfitis, Institute for Speech and Language Processing/Athena
RIC
Panagiotis Kouris, Institute for Speech and Language Processing/Athena RIC
Spyridoula Stamouli, Scientific Associate at Institute for Language and Speech
Processing

Contact and Submission: delosisEUproject at gmail.com
Webpage:
https://www.athenarc.gr/el/events/workshop-measurements-linguistic-studies




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