30.1162, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Subject: 30.1162, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Acquisition, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:52:09
From: Bert Oben [bert.oben at kuleuven.be]
Subject: European Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication

 
Full Title: European Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication 
Short Title: MMSYM 2019 

Date: 09-Sep-2019 - 10-Sep-2019
Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Contact Person: Bert Oben
Meeting Email: mmsym at kuleuven.be
Web Site: http://mmsym.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

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.

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.

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 be resolved and new challenges emerge for
research on multimodal communication. The MMSYM symposium aims to provide a
forum for the discussion of these challenges.

Confirmed invited speakers are: 

Federico Rossano
University of California San Diego, Cognitive Science – Comparative Cognition
Lab

Lindsay Ferrara
NTNU Trondheim, Department of Language & Literature


Call for Papers:

Topics:
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.

Apart from this specific theme, the symposium is open for contributions
covering all aspects of multimodal communication, including but not limited
to:

Speech, gestures and signs in human communication
- Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour
- Multimodality aspects of language acquisition (both L1 and L2)
- Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents
- Multimodal systems for sign language users
- Multimodal health communication
- Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support 
- Multimodal dialogue systems
- Multimodal corpora
- Sign language corpora
- Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora
- Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their
interaction
- Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data
- Evaluation methods for multimodal systems

Submission Guidelines:

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.
Abstracts should be submitted as pdf files and sent to mmsym at kuleuven.be
before 25 April 2019. Please make sure to add the following information in the
body of that e-mail:

- names of authors
- title
- preferred presentation format (i.e. presentation or poster)

Important Dates:

- Deadline for abstract submissions: 25 April, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: 15 May, 2019
- Revised abstracts: 15 August, 2019
- Symposium dates: 9-10 September, 2019




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