32.3796, Calls: Computational Linguistics / TAL (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.3796, Calls:  Computational Linguistics / TAL (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:01:08
From: Pascale Sebillot [pascale.sebillot at irisa.fr]
Subject: Computational Linguistics / TAL (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: TAL 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

TAL Journal, Special issue on ''Cross/multimodal NLP''
Website: https://tal-63-2.sciencesconf.org

Natural language is not limited to the written modality. It includes and
interacts with many others. On the one hand, a message can be conveyed through
other language modalities, including audio (speech), gestures and facial
expressions (sign language or completed speech). It may also be accompanied by
social attitudes and non-verbal dimensions, including signs of affect,
spontaneity, pathology, co-adaptation with dialogue participants, etc. Natural
language processing (NLP) is thus a joint processing of multiple information
channels. On the other hand, natural language is often used to describe
concepts and denote entities that are essentially multimodal (description of
an image, an event, etc.). Many problems then require bridges between
different modalities.
The objective of this special issue of the journal TAL is to promote NLP in
multimodal contexts (several modalities contribute to the resolution of a
problem) or inter-modal contexts (passage from one modality to another). 

Thus, the contributions expected for this special issue are, among others (but
not exclusively), in the following fields of application:
- multimodal dialogue, multimodal question-answering
- sign language, completed spoken language
- speech processing, automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis in
multimodal contexts
- synthesis of animated emotional agents
- handwriting recognition and analysis of handwritten documents
- understanding, translation and summarisation of multimodal documents
- indexing, search and mining of multimedia and/or multimodal documents
- biological signal processing, computational psychology or sociology, for NLP
- inter-/multimodal human-computer interface for NLP
- other multimodal or inter-modal applications (automatic image captioning,
image-to-text generation, generation/analysis of songs and lyrics, etc.)

In the face of the predominance of work on written language processing and the
historical compartmentalisation of communities specific to each modality
(image processing, signal processing, neuroscience, etc.), authors are
encouraged to highlight the specificities (benefits, difficulties,
perspectives, etc.) linked to inter- or multimodality in their work, for
instance concerning:
-  understanding the interactions between modalities
- harmonisation or compatibility of representations
- the development of joint models or transfer from one modality to another
- the constitution (or even annotation) of multimodal resources
- etc.

Important Dates:
- Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2022
- Full paper submission deadline: 14 March 2022
- Notification to authors, first review: 1 June 2022
- Notification to authors, second review: 1 September 2022
- Publication: November 2022

About the Journal:
Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL, “Natural Language Processing”) is an
international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural
Language Processing) since 1960 with the support of the CNRS (French National
Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic mode of
publication, with printing on demand. This has no impact however on the
reviewing and selection process.




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