[Corpora-List] CFP: LREC Workshop - Multimodal Corpora - How should multimodal corpora deal with the situation?

[Jens Edlund]

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message

=== 2nd Call for Papers
===
=== LREC 2012 Workshop
===
=== Multimodal Corpora:
=== How should multimodal corpora
=== deal with the situation?
===
=== 22 May 2012
=== Istanbul, Turkey
===
=== http://www.multimodal-corpora.org/

Currently, the creation of a multimodal corpus involves the recording,
annotation and analysis of a selection of many possible communication
modalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, and body
posture. Simultaneously, an increasing number of research areas are
transgressing from focused single modality research to full-fledged
multimodality research. Multimodal corpora are becoming a core
research asset and they provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary
exchange of ideas, concepts and data. The increasing interest in
multimodal communication and multimodal corpora evidenced by European
Networks of Excellence and integrated projects such as HUMAINE,
SIMILAR, CHIL, AMI, CALLAS and SSPNet; the  success of recent
conferences and workshops dedicated to multimodal communication
(ICMI-MLMI, IVA, Gesture, PIT, Nordic Symposium on Multimodal
Communication, Embodied Language Processing); and the creation of the
Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces also testifies to the growing
interest in this area, and the general need for data on multimodal
behaviours.

In 2012, the 8th Workshop on Multimodal Corpora will again be
collocated with LREC. This year, LREC has selected Speech and
Multimodal Resources as its special topic. This points to the
significance of the workshop’s general scope, and the fact that the
main conference special topic largely covers the broad scope of the
workshop provides us with a unique opportunity to step outside the
boundaries and look further into the future.

The workshop follows similar events held at LREC 00, 02, 04, 06, 08,
10, and ICMI 11. All workshops are documented under
www.multimodal-corpora.org and complemented by a special issue of the
Journal of Language Resources and Evaluation which came out in 2008
and a state-of-the-art book published by Springer in 2009.

=== Aims

As always, we aim for a wide cross-section of the field, with
contributions ranging from collection efforts, coding, validation and
analysis methods, to tools and applications of multimodal corpora.
This year, however, we also want to look ahead and emphasize the fact
that a growing segment of research takes a view of spoken language as
situated action, where linguistic and non-linguistic actions are
intertwined with the dynamic conditions given by the situation and the
place in which the actions occur. In spite of this, most corpora
capture little more than the linguistic and meta-linguistic actions
per se, and contain little or no information about the situation in
which they take place. For this reason, we encourage contributions
that raise the question of what the additions to future multimodal
corpora will be - with possibilities ranging from simple dynamic
information such as background noise, room temperature, light
conditions and room dimensions to more complex models of room
contents, external events, scents, or cognitive load modelling
including physiological data such as breathing or pulse. We hope that
with your help, the workshop will serve to examine the way language is
conceived in corpus creation and to spark a discussion of its
boundaries and how these should be accounted for in annotations and in
interpretation.

=== Time schedule

The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon
session. There will be time for collective discussions.

=== Topics

The LREC'2012 workshop on multimodal corpora will feature a special
session on the collection, annotation and analysis of corpora of
situated interaction.

Other topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

- Multimodal corpus collection activities (e.g. direction-giving
dialogues, emotional behaviour, human-avatar interaction, human-robot
interaction, etc.) and descriptions of existing multimodal resources
- Relations between modalities in natural (human) interaction and in
human-computer interaction
- Multimodal interaction in specific scenarios, e.g. group interaction
in meetings
- Coding schemes for the annotation of multimodal corpora
- Evaluation and validation of multimodal annotations
- Methods, tools, and best practices for the acquisition, creation,
management, access, distribution, and use of multimedia and multimodal
corpora
- Interoperability between multimodal annotation tools (exchange
formats, conversion tools, standardization)
- Collaborative coding
- Metadata descriptions of multimodal corpora
- Automatic annotation, based e.g. on motion capture or image
processing, and the integration with manual annotations
- Corpus-based design of multimodal and multimedia systems, in
particular systems that involve human-like modalities either in input
(Virtual Reality, motion capture, etc.) and output (virtual
characters)
- Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinated
speech, gaze, gesture, facial expressions)
- Machine learning applied to multimodal data
- Multimodal dialogue modelling

=== Important dates

- Deadline for paper submission (complete paper): 24 February 2012
- Notification of acceptance: 19 March
- Final version of accepted paper: 26 March
- Final program and proceedings: 20 April
- Workshop: 22 May

=== Submissions

The workshop will consist primarily of paper presentations and
discussion/working sessions. Submissions should be 4 pages long, must
be in English, and follow the submission guidelines at

http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/

Submission should be made at:

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/MMCorpora2012/

Demonstrations of multimodal corpora and related tools are encouraged
as well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted).

=== LREC2012 Map of Language Resources,
=== Technologies and Evaluation

When submitting a paper, from the START page authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that either have
been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of
your research (contribution to building the LREC2012 Map).

=== Organizing committee

- Jens Edlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen, Denmark/University of Malta, Malta

_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora