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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Our research group Multimodality, Interaction & Discourse (University of Leuven, Belgium) </span><font size="3">organizes the 2019 edition of MMSYM, a symposium on Multimodal Communication (http://mmsym.org/). During a two-day </font>workshop,<font size="3"> we
will zoom in on the theme of Multimodal Interaction in both spoken and signed languages. The workshop will take place on September 9-10 at the University of Leuven. More information on the symposium and submission guidelines can be found below. </font></p>
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<p><font size="3">We hope to see many of you there! </font></p>
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<p><font size="3">All the best, </font></p>
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<p><font size="3">Inez Beukeleers for MIDI</font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size: 10pt;">Campus Sint-Andries Antwerpen </font></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">C</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">all
for papers for 6th European and 9th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication</span><br>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Local organizers: Research group MIDI (Multimodality, Interaction & Discourse), University of Leuven</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Conference data: September 9-10, 2019</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Website: </span><a href="http://mmsym.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">http://mmsym.org/</a><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The symposium follows up on a tradition established by the Swedish Symposia on Multimodal Communication
held from 1997 until 2000, and continued by the Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 2003 to 2012. Since 2013 the symposium has acquired a broader European dimension, with editions held in Malta, Estonia, Ireland, Denmark and Germany. This
year the symposium will be held in Belgium for the first time.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The past ten years have witnessed a spectacular increase in research on multimodal communication from
a variety of perspectives and (sub)disciplines, including (corpus) linguistics, conversation analysis, human-computer interaction research, and (critical) discourse analysis. This has not only led to a range of novel insights into the dynamics of embodied
and situated communication (see e.g. Müller et al. 2013, 2014 for an overview), but has also been the catalyst for the development and implementation of methodological innovations, including the use of high-quality (including multi-angle) video recordings,
the integration of input from motion capturing systems, biometric sensor systems and eye-tracking into a multimodal analysis pipeline, the exploration of (semi-)automatic annotation techniques for large-scale corpora, and the implementation of multimodal interaction
in computer interfaces. Despite the rapid development of the fields involved, many questions still need to b</span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">e
resolved and new challenges emerge for research on multimodal communication. The MMSYM symposium aims to provide a forum for the discussion of these challenges.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">*Topics*</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Apart from this specific theme, the symposium is open for contributions covering all aspects of multimodal
communication, including but not limited to:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Speech, gestures and signs in human communication</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Multimodality aspects of language acquisition (both L1 and L2)</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Multimodal systems for sign language users</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Multimodal health communication</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Multimodal dialogue systems</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Multimodal corpora</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Sign language corpora</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Evaluation methods for multimodal systems</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">*Submission guidelines*</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Abstracts should be submitted as pdf files and sent to mmsym@kuleuven.be<</span><a href="mailto:mmsym@kuleuven.be" target="_blank" style="font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">mailto:mmsym@kuleuven.be</a><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">>
before 25th April 2019. Please make sure to add the following information in the body of that e-mail:</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- names of authors</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- title</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">*Important dates*</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Deadline for abstract submissions: 10 May, 2019</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Notification of acceptance: 20 May, 2019</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Revised abstracts: 15 August, 2019</span><br style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px">
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:'Segoe UI','Segoe WP','Segoe UI WPC',Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">- Symposium dates: 9-10 September, 2019</span><br>
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