13.839, Calls: Multimodal Dialogue, Data Mining
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Subject: 13.839, Calls: Multimodal Dialogue, Data Mining
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:37:25 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: CLASS Workshop on Multimodal Dialogue Systems: 3rd CFP
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:47:05 +0900
From: icdm02 at kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp
Subject: Call for Tutorials (IEEE Data Mining 2002)
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:37:25 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan van Kuppevelt <kuppevel at IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: CLASS Workshop on Multimodal Dialogue Systems: 3rd CFP
3rd Announcement
*** International CLASS Workshop ***
on
Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction in
Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Copenhagen, Denmark
28-29 June 2002
Detailed and more up to date information
may be found at the workshop webpage:
http://www.class-tech.org/events/NMI_workshop2.html
Invited Speakers/Contributors:
Tim Bickmore and Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab), Phil Cohen (Oregon
Graduate Institute), Ronald Cole (University of Colorado at Boulder),
Bjoern Granstroem (KTH, Stockholm), Dominic Massaro (UCSC), Candy
Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA), Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST), Wolfgang
Wahlster (DFKI), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Following up on the CLASS workshop in Verona (Italy, 14-15 December
2001), this workshop will concentrate on innovative and challenging
approaches on natural, intelligent and effective interaction in
multimodal dialogue systems. The aim of the workshop is to bring
together theoretically and practically oriented researchers from both
academia and industry with the purpose of having a thorough, fruitful
and representative discussion of the topic area in an international
setting.
CLASS SPONSORSHIP
The workshop is sponsored by the European CLASS project
(http://www.class-tech.org/) which was initiated on the request of the
European Commission with the purpose of supporting and stimulating
collaboration within and among Human Language Technology (HLT)
projects, as well as between HLT projects and relevant projects
outside Europe. Currently, CLASS comprises 42 projects and 220
registered members.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome papers describing theoretical or practical research on
multimodal dialogue systems. The focus of the workshop is on natural,
intelligent and effective multimodal interaction. Topics of interest
include:
* Multimodal Signal Processing
Models for multimodal signal recognition and synthesis,
including combinations of speech (emotional speech and
meaningful intonation for speech), text, graphics, music,
gesture, face and facial expression, and (embodied)
animated or anthropomorphic conversational agents.
* Multimodal Communication Management
Dialogue management models for mixed initiative
conversational and user-adaptive natural and multimodal
interaction, including models for collaboration and multi-
party conversation.
* Multimodal Miscommunication Management
Multimodal strategies for handling or preventing
miscommunication, in particular multimodal repair and
correction strategies, clarification strategies for
ambiguous or conflicting multimodal information, and
multimodal grounding and feedback strategies.
* Multimodal Interpretation and Response Planning
Interpretation and response planning on the basis of
multimodal dialogue context, including (context-semantic)
models for the common representation of multimodal
content, as well as innovative concepts/technologies on
the relation between multimodal interpretation and
generation.
* Reasoning in Intelligent Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Non-monotonic reasoning techniques required for
intelligent interaction in various types of multimodal
dialogue systems, including techniques needed for
multimodal input interpretation, for reasoning about the
user(s), and for the coordination and integration of
multimodal input and output.
* Choice and Coordination of Media and Modalities
Diagnostic tools and technologies for choosing the
appropriate media and input and output modalities for the
application and task under consideration, as well as
theories and technologies for natural and effective
multimodal response presentation.
* Multimodal Corpora, Tools and Schemes
Training corpora, testsuites and benchmarks for multimodal
dialogue systems, including corpus tools and schemes
for multilevel and multimodal coding and annotation.
* Architectures for Multimodal Dialogue Systems
New architectures for multimodal interpretation and
response planning, including issues of reusability and
portability, as well as architectures for the next
generation of multi-party conversational interfaces to
distributed information.
* Evaluation of Multimodal Dialogue Systems
Current practice and problematic issues in the
standardization of subjective and objective multimodal
evaluation metrics, including evaluation models allowing
for adequate task fulfilment measurements, comparative
judgements across different domain tasks, as well as
models showing how evaluation translates into targeted,
component-wise improvements of systems and aspects.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
Although the workshop has an open character implying that plenty of
room is available for the presentation of papers from researchers from
all over the world, the workshop will contain invited contributions
from a group of 10 specially qualified researchers with a balanced
composition of workshop-relevant expertise. Part of the group is
selected from the broad CLASS community; part of them are
internationally leading researchers from outside CLASS. Invited
contributors will also participate in the panel session organized by
the co-chairs of the workshop program committee.
SUBMISSION OF FULL AND SHORT PAPERS
In addition to papers for full plenary presentation, we encourage the
submission of short papers in combination with a very short
presentation in the plenary session followed by a poster
presentation. Full papers must be no longer than 10 pages, including
references, examples, algorithms, graphical representations,
etc. Short papers should be 4 pages maximally.
Full and short papers should be sent electronically to the e-mail
address classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de and must be received no
later than 31 March 2002.
Stylefiles are available at the workshop webpage:
http://www.class-tech.org/events/NMI_workshop2.html. Papers should be
submitted in pdf or postscript format.
The title page should include the following information (no separate
title page is needed):
- Title
- Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
- Abstract (up to 15 lines)
- List of relevant keywords
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of full and short papers: 31 March 2002
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2002
Final submissions: 31 May 2002
Workshop: 28-29 June 2002
WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS
Full papers and short papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.
In addition to the group of invited contributors, authors of a
selected number of papers accepted for the workshop proceedings will
be asked to send in an extended and updated version of their paper for
publication in a book that will be published by Kluwer Academic
Publishers (TLTB book series). In order to guarantee full coherence of
the book, we might invite some workshop-external researchers to
contribute a chapter to the book as well.
PANEL SESSIONS
In addition to the presentation of full and short papers in the
plenary session, we will organize the following panel discussion on
the main theme of the workshop:
Natural Multimodal Interaction: Current Practice and
Future Research
Members of this panel session will be invited contributors. Panellists
will be asked to send in a short position abstract before the
workshop. After the workshop, a written summary of this panel session
will be available at the CLASS sub-website on Natural and Multimodal
Interactivity (http://www.class-tech.org/nmi/). We intend to make
available a video or audio recording as well.
Further, we strongly encourage proposals for a second panel session
related to the main topic of the workshop or some special
subtopic. The deadline for panel session proposals is 30 April
2002. Proposals can also be sent to the workshop e-mail address
(classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de) and should contain the
following information:
- title of the proposed panel session
- a brief description of the suggested topic of the panel
session, including an explanation of why this topic is
relevant for the field
- a list of suggested panellists
Questions on panel session proposals may be directed to the chairs of
the workshop program committee at
classworkshop2002 at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Co-Chairs
Niels Ole Bernsen (NISLab, Odense University)
Jan van Kuppevelt (University of Stuttgart)
Reviewers (nearly all confirmed)
* Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
* Tim Bickmore (MIT Media Lab)
* Louis Boves (Nijmegen University)
* Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab)
* Phil Cohen (Oregon Graduate Institute)
* Ronald Cole (University of Colorado at Boulder)
* John Dowding (RIACS)
* Laila Dybkjaer (NISLab, Odense University)
* Bjoern Granstroem (KTH, Stockholm),
* Jean-Claude Martin (LIMSI-CNRS)
* Dominic Massaro (UCSC)
* Catherine Pelachaud (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
* Thomas Rist (DFKI)
* Alex Rudnicky (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Candy Sidner (MERL, Cambridge, MA)
* Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
* William Swartout (ICT, USC)
* Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST)
* Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI)
* Alex Waibel (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjaer, Jan van Kuppevelt.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Questions about submission
and review process: Jan van Kuppevelt
<kuppevelt at ims.uni-stuttgart.de>
Questions about local issues: Laila Dybkjaer
<laila at nis.sdu.dk>
Miscellaneous: Niels Ole Bernsen
<nob at nis.sdu.dk>
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 03:47:05 +0900
From: icdm02 at kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp
Subject: Call for Tutorials (IEEE Data Mining 2002)
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ICDM '02: The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
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Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan
December, 9 - 12, 2002
Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02
Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02
IEEE ICDM 2002: Call for Tutorials
**********************************
The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '02) will
include tutorials providing in-depth background on specific subjects
in data mining. The recency of the data mining field, and the variety
of disciplines that are represented, lead to many possibilities for
good tutorials:
* End-to-end descriptions of the practical application of data
mining technology (i.e., applications that may be "typical" for a
paper, but provide an example of issues faced in a data mining
project that would generalize to problems faced by the conference
attendees) in emerging data mining application areas such as
bioinformatics, medical applications, electronic commerce, Web
Intelligence and Business Intelligence.
* Surveys of new and developing research areas in data
mining (e.g., areas of structured, textual, temporal, spatial,
multimedia, Web, distributed, scientific data mining, data pre-
processing, data reduction, data sampling, feature selection,
feature transformation, man-machine interaction in data mining
and visual data mining).
* Short courses on areas of machine learning, databases, or
statistics that may be "old hat" to specialists in that
discipline, but are new to a majority of the conference
attendees. (e.g., an introduction to Hidden Markov Models).
* An in-depth coverage of a past research breakthrough that is now
becoming a mature technology.
The topics of interest fall within those described in the conference
Call for Papers (Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/icdm02
Mirror Page: http://www.wi-lab.com/icdm02).
Submission Details
==================
The tutorial proposal should include the following:
1. Title and abstract of the tutorial;
2. Intended audience. Include prerequisite knowledge required of the
attendees, and the expected areas of interest (e.g., a tutorial
on statistics for people applying data mining tools vs. a tutorial
on statistics for people building data mining tools);
3. Length of time needed (e.g., half day or full day); and
4. Short biographies of the presenters.
Tutorial materials such as handouts and slides should be included if
available, but are not required for submission. However, providing
such materials will show depth and maturity of the tutorial, and will
be a strong factor in the selection process.
Please send a soft copy (preferred) of your proposal to
washio at ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp, or a hard copy to:
Prof. Takashi Washio (Tutorials Chair)
I.S.I.R., Osaka University
8-1, Mihogaoka, Ibaraki City,
Osaka, 567-0047,
JAPAN
Important Dates
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June 30, 2002: Tutorial submissions.
July 31, 2002: Acceptance notices.
August 31, 2002: Camera-ready copy of tutorial handouts.
December 9, 2002: ICDM '02 tutorials.
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