Appel: Third International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC)

Wed Dec 30 11:52:52 UTC 2009

Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:43:19 +0100
From: "Laurence Devillers" <devil at limsi.fr>
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X-url: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emotion-workshop
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First Call for Papers 

Third International Workshop on EMOTION (satellite of LREC):

CORPORA FOR RESEARCH ON EMOTION AND AFFECT 

http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emotion-workshop 

Sunday, 23^rd May 2010

Mediterranean Conference Centre- Valletta Malta

In Association with

7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION

LREC2010 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/

Main Conference 19^th-21^st May 2010

Recognition of emotion in speech has recently matured to one of the
key disciplines in speech analysis serving next generation
human-machine and  robot communication and media retrieval systems.
However, compared to automatic speech and speaker recognition, where
several hours of speech of a multitude of speakers in a great variety
of different languages are available, sparseness of resources has
accompanied emotion research to the present day: genuine emotion is
hard to collect, ambiguous to annotate, and tricky to distribute due
to privacy preservation.

The few available corpora suffer from a number of issues owing to the
peculiarity of this young field: as in no related task, different
forms of modelling reaching from discrete over complex to continuous
emotions exist, and ground truth is never solid due to the often
highly different perception of the mostly very few annotators. Given
by the data sparseness most widely used corpora feature below 30 min
of speech cross-validation without strict test, development, and train
partitions, and without strict separation of speakers throughout
partitioning are the predominant evaluation strategy, which is
obviously sub-optimal. Acting of emotions was often seen as a solution
to the desperate need for data, which often resulted in further
restrictions such as little variation of spoken content or few
speakers. As a result, many interesting potentially progressing ideas
cannot be addressed, as clustering of speakers or the influence of
languages, cultures, speaker health state, etc..

Previous LREC workshops on Corpora for research on Emotion and Affect
(at LREC 2006 and 2008) have helped to consolidate the field, and in
particular there is now growing experience of not only building
databases but also using them to build systems (for both synthesis and
detection). This workshop aims to continue the process, and lays
particular emphasis on showing how databases can be or have been used
for system building.

Papers are invited in the area of corpora for research on emotion and
affect. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Novel corpora of affective speech in audio and multimodal data in
  particular with high number of speakers and high diversity
  (language, age, speaking style, health state, etc.)

- Case studies of the way databases have been or can be used for
  system building

- Measures for quantitative corpus quality assessment

- Standardisation of corpora and labels for cross-corpus
  experimentation

- Mixture of emotions (i.e. complex or blended emotions)

- Real-life applications

- Long-term recordings for intra-speaker variation assessment

- Rich and novel annotations and annotation types

- Communications on testing protocols

- Evaluations on novel or multiple corpora

ORGANISING COMMITEE

Laurence Devillers / Björn Schuller LIMSI-CNRS, France

Roddy Cowie / Ellen Douglas-Cowie Queen's University, UK

Anton Batliner Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Contact: Laurence Devillers and Björn Schuller, lrec-emotion at limsi.fr

IMPORTANT DATES

 Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission    12^th  February

Notification of acceptance           12^th  March

Final version of accepted paper      22^nd March

Workshop full-day                    23^rd  May

SUBMISSIONS

 The workshop will consist of paper and poster
presentations. Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster must
consist of about 1500-2000 words. Final submissions should be 4 pages
long, must be in English, and follow the submission guidelines at
LREC2010. Papers need to be submitted via the START page of LREC
2010. 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
have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result
of your research. For further information on this new iniative, please
refer to
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources

Following this initiative, all contributions shall provide an
additional corpus description according to a template (with example)
provided by the organisers at the time of submission. The information
will consist of providing site, domain, classes or dimensions with
definition, context, language(s), spoken content, type, status, size,
speaker and instance numbers, total duration, recording, encoding and
storage details, annotator number, annotation state and format, and
partitioning type.

In addition they are asked to provide audio examples if possible.

As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send to
lrec-emotion at limsi.fr a brief email indicating their intention to
participate, including their contact information and the topic they
intend to address in their submissions. Submission site:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/EMOTION2010/

Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local
Organising Committee. Submitted papers will undergo peer-review.

TIME SCHEDULE AND REGISTRATION FEE

The workshop will consist of a full-day session, and there will be
time for collective discussions.

For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee will be specified on
http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/emotion-workshop

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