Appel: IWSDS 2012

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 16:44:50 +0200
From: Joseph Mariani <Joseph.Mariani at limsi.fr>
Message-ID: <4F9FF6E2.5040906 at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/iwsds2012


International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2012)

Towards a Natural Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones.

Paris, France, November 28-30, 2012

http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/iwsds2012

Second Announcement

Following the success of IWSDS'2009 (Irsee, Germany), IWSDS'2010
(Gotemba Kogen Resort, Japan) and IWSDS'2011 (Granada, Spain),the Fourth
International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems (IWSDS 2012) will be
held in Paris (France) on November 28-30, 2012.

The IWSDS Workshop series provides an international forum for the
presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions
among researchers as well as industrialists, with a special interest to
the practical implementation of Spoken Dialog Systems in everyday
applications. Scientific achievements in language processing now results
in the development of successful applications such as IBM Watson, Evi,
Apple Siri or Google Assistant for access to knowledge and interaction
with smartphones, while the coming of domestic robots advocates for the
development of powerful communication means with their human users and
fellow robots.

We therefore put this year workshop under the theme "Towards a Natural
Interaction with Robots, Knowbots and Smartphones", which covers:

- Dialog for robot interaction (including ethics),
- Dialog for Open Domain knowledge access,
- Dialog for interacting with smartphones,
- Mediated dialog (including multilingual dialog involving Speech
  Translation),
- Dialog quality evaluation.

We would also like to encourage the discussion of common issues of
theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools and
techniques, and therefore also invite the submission of original papers
in any related area, including but not limited to:

- Speech recognition and semantic analysis,
- Dialog management, Adaptive dialog modeling,
- Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and
  physiological data,
- Emotional and interactional dynamic profile of the speaker during
  dialog, User modeling,
- Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordination and conflict
  description,
- Conflict resolution in complex multi-level decisions,
- Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and
  output,
- Fusion, fission and information management, Learning and adaptability
- Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer
  interaction,
- Spoken Dialog databases and corpora, including methodologies and
  ethics,
- Objective and subjective Spoken Dialog evaluation methodologies,
  strategies and paradigms,
- Spoken Dialog prototypes and products, etc.

We particularly welcome papers that can be illustrated by a
demonstration, and we will organize the conference in order to best
accommodate these papers, whatever their category.

*PAPER SUBMISSION*

We distinguish between the following categories of submissions:

Long Research Papers are reserved for reports on mature research
results. The expected length of a long paper should be in the range of
8-12 pages.

Short Research Papers should not exceed 6 pages in total. Authors may
choose this category if they wish to report on smaller case studies or
ongoing but interesting and original research efforts

Demo - System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate their system may
choose this category and provide a description of their system and
demo. System papers should not exceed 6 pages in total.

As usual, it is planned that a selection of accepted papers will be
published in a book by Springer following the conference.

*IMPORTANT DATES*

Deadline for submission: July 16, 2012
Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2012
Deadline for final submission of accepted paper: October 8, 2012
Deadline for Early Bird registration: October 8, 2012
Final program available online: November 5, 2012
Workshop: November 28-30, 2012

VENUE: IWSDS 2012 will be held as a two-day residential seminar in the
wonderful Castle of Ermenonville near Paris, France, where all attendees
will be accommodated.

IWSDS Steering Committee: Gary Geunbae Lee(POSTECH, Pohang, Korea),
Ramón López-Cózar (Univ. of Granada, Spain), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI and
IMMI-CNRS, Orsay, France), Wolfgang Minker (Ulm Univ., Germany), Satoshi
Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

IWSDS 2012 Program Committee: Joseph Mariani (LIMSI& IMMI-CNRS, Chair),
Laurence Devillers (LIMSI-CNRS& Univ. Paris-Sorbonne 4), Martine
Garnier-Rizet (IMMI-CNRS), Sophie Rosset (LIMSI-CNRS)

Organization Committee: Martine Garnier-Rizet (Chair), Lynn Barreteau,
Joseph Mariani (IMMI-CNRS)

Supporting organizations (to be completed): IMMI-CNRS and LIMSI-CNRS
(France), Postech (Korea), University of Granada (Spain), Nara Institute
of Science and Technology and NICT (Japan), Ulm University (Germany)

Scientific Committee: To be announced

Sponsors: To be announced

Please contact iwsds2012 at immi-labs.org
or visit
http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/iwsds2012
to get more information.

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