Appel: Multimodal Corpora: How should multimodal corpora, LREC 2012 Workshop

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:33:52 +0100
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*LREC 2012 Workshop
Multimodal Corpora: How should multimodal corpora deal with the
situation?*

1st Call for Papers
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): 12 February 2012
  * Notification of acceptance: 10 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).

*LREC 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


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