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FUTURE EVENTS
Seminar of AFCP/I3
« Journée Parole Expressive » Expressive Speech Workshop
Salle des Conférences – Maison des Langues
Université Stendhal – Domaine Universitaire – Grenoble - France
20 novembre 2003
Emotional, affective or expressive speech is more and more relevant in theoritical or aplicative
purposes, especially because of new hypotheses of cognitive and neuro psychology.
This workhop is aimed to meet different approaches and points of view on the links between langage, speech,
emotions and affects : how to catch and analyse voice/speech expressions in front of the cognitive processes which
produce them, which communication values are carried by expressions.
Dans l’Antiquité déjà, la communication des émotions dans le discours était avancée comme un fait majeur.
Aujourd’hui, des hypothèses fortes de la psychologie cognitive et de la neuropsychologie donnent aux émotions un
statut central : les valeurs affectives qui transitent dans la communication verbale relèvent certes de la naturalité de
l’interaction, mais interviennent également dans l’efficacité même de la communication. Quand les technologies
vocales traitent les affects, elles ne touchent ainsi pas seulement l’enjeu ergonomique, mais très directement les
compétences des systèmes de communication.
La parole « émotionnelle », « affective », « expressive » (re)devient un domaine de recherche et
d’applications en plein dynamisme, comme en témoignent les workshops spécifiques ou les
sessions de grandes conférences traditionnelles de la communauté parole.
Le but de cette journée est de rassembler différentes approches et points de vue sur les rapports qui lient
langage, parole, émotions, affects : peut-on capturer et analyser les expressions dans la parole sans hypothèses sur les
processus cognitifs qui les produisent ; quelles sont les méthodes utilisées pour l’analyse de la voix/de la parole, quelles
valeurs communicatives sont-elles ainsi véhiculées.
The official languages of this workshop is French and secondary English
(Contact : Véronique Aubergé, [email protected], 33 (0)4 76 82 41 97)
PROGRAMME
Chaque intervention est de 30 mn, suivie de 15 mn de discussion.
9 :00 - 9 :45
Christophe d’Alessandro
LIMSI-CNRS Paris Orsay
Analyse acoustique de la voix émotionnelle
9 :45 – 10:30
Valérie Maffiolo
France Telecom R&D Lannion
La parole affective dans les voix naturelles et les voix de synthèse
10 :30-10 :45 Pause
10: 45 – 11 :30
Tanja Bänziger, Didier Grandjean et David Sander
Geneva Emotion Research Group
Approche cognitive de l'expression émotionnelle
11:30 – 12 :15
(to be confirmed)
Automatic Recognition of emotions in speech
12 :15 –12 :30 Discussion générale
13 :30 – 13 :30 Pause repas
13 :30 – 14 :15
Nick Campbell
ATR/Crest Nara, Japon
Communicating Affect in our Speech - Analysis of a Large Acoustic Database
14 :15- 15 :00
Véronique Aubergé
Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble
Les voies(x) des affects
15 :00 –15 :45
Antoine Auchlin
Faculté des Lettres-Genève
Discours comme expérience : émergence, partage, fusion d'affects (empirie et épistémologie)
15 :45-16 :00 Pause
16 :00-16 :45
Jean-Marc Colletta
Lab de DIdatique des Langues Etrangères et Maternelles, Grenoble
Communication verbale et non verbale des affects
16 :45-17 :00
Anna Tcherkassof
Lab Psychologie et Neuro-Cognition , Grenoble
Les expressions faciales des émotions, théories modèles et méthodes
17 :00-17:30
Discussion générale – Table ronde
Call
for Participation
ISCA Tutorial and
Research Workshop on
AFFECTIVE
DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
ADS'04
June 14
through June 16, 2004
Kloster Irsee
Germany
http://www.sigme
dia.org/ads04
The workshop will focus on the role of affect and emotion in dialogue
including e.g. design issues, applications, evaluation and tools. It
will provide a forum for the presentation of research and applications
and for lively discussions among researchers as well as
industrialists. Prototype and product demonstrations will be very
welcome.
ADS04 is organised as a collaboration between the Universities of
Augsburg, Ulm and Southern Denmark and DaimlerChrysler Research and
Technology.
Elisabeth André
Intelligent User Interfaces,
University of Augsburg, Germany
[email protected]
Laila Dybkjær
Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory,
University of Southern Denmark
[email protected]
Wolfgang Minker
Department of Information Technology
University of Ulm, Germany
[email protected]
Paul Heisterkamp
Dialogue Systems,
DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
[email protected]
WORKSHOP THEMES
Papers may discuss theories, applications, evaluation, limitations,
general tools and techniques. Discussion papers that critically
evaluate approaches or processing strategies and prototype
demonstrations are especially welcome.
* Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures and facial
expressions
* Expression of emotions via speech, gestures and facial expressions
* Emotional speech synthesis
* Frustration detection in multimodal dialogue systems
* Virtual agents exploiting affect for better interaction
* Animated agents provoking human empathy
* Modelling emotional agents
* Emotion and cognition
* Affective user modelling
* Emotion-based reasoning capabilities for coordination, conflict
description and problem solving
* Emotional databases and corpora
* Evaluation strategies and paradigms for affective interaction
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
The format of the workshop will be a non-overlapping mixture of oral
and poster sessions. A number of tutorial lectures will be given by
internationally recognised experts from the area of Affective Dialogue
Systems.
All poster sessions will be opened by an oral summary by the session
chair. A number of poster sessions will be succeeded by a discussion
session focussing on the subject of the session. It is our belief that
this general format will ensure a lively and valuable workshop.
The organisers would like to encourage researchers and industrialists
to take the opportunity to bring their applications as well as their
demonstrator prototypes and design tools for demonstration to the
workshop. If sufficient interest is shown, a special
demonstrator/poster session will be organised and followed by a
discussion session.
The official language of the workshop is English. At the opening of
the workshop hardcopies of the proceedings, published in the LNCS/LNAI
Series by Springer Verlag, will be available.
SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSAL
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 6-8 pages.
* Short Research Papers should not exceed 4 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 Submissions - System Papers: Authors who wish to demonstrate
their system during ADS04 may choose this category and provide a
description of their system, installation, or demo. System papers
should not exceed 4 pages in total.
Final versions of papers will appear in the ADS04 conference proceedings.
Schedule:
Submission of paper proposal: January 15, 2004
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2004
Submission of final paper: April 15, 2004
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
The Scientific Committee consists of the following group of
internationally recognised researchers (the list will be extended):
Jan Alexandersson
Niels Ole Bernsen
Cristina Conati
Ellen Douglas-Cowie
Silke Goronzy
Björn Granström
Jon Gratch
Joakim Gustafson
Kia Hoeoek
David House
Ralf Kompe
Christine Lisetti
Jean-Claude Martin
Dominic Massaro
Elmar Nöth
Ana Paiva
Catherine Pelachaud
Helmut Prendinger
Fiorella de Rosis
Alex Rudnicky
Marc Schroeder
Wolfgang Wahlster
CONTACT INFORMATION
Comments on ADS'04 Workshop to: [email protected]
-Wolfgang Minker
University of Ulm
Department of Information Technology
Albert-Einstein-Allee 43
D-89081 Ulm
Phone: +49 731 502 6254/-6251
Fax: +49 731 502-6259
http://it.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/
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The 1st International Joint Conference
of Natural Language Processing
organized by the Asia Federation of NLP
associations (AFNLP)
Website:
www.cipsc.org.cn/IJCNLP-04
at Sanya, Hainan island,
China
http://www.regenttour.com/chinaplanner/hainan/
Main Conference: March 22-24, 2004
Workshops:
March 25, 2004
[Sponsoring Organizations]
Chinese Information Processing Society of China
Association for Natural Language Processing of Japan
Association for Computational Linguistics
[Paper Submission]
The information on paper submission will soon appear in
the website @
http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijcnlp04/submission.html
The important dates are as follows.
Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2003
(Note that we abolish the paper registration deadline
of November 8)
Notification of acceptance: December 23, 2003
Camera ready papers due: January 24, 2004
[Program Committee]
[Co-chairs of the Program Committee]
Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation, Hsinchu)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
[Information Retrieval]
Sung Hyon Myaeng (Information and Communications
University, Daejeon)
[FSA, Parsing Algorithms]
John Carroll (Sussex University, Brighton)
[Theories and Formalisms for Morphology, Syntax and
Semantics]
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, Cambridge)
[Semantic Disambiguation]
Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia)
[Taggers, Chunkers, Shallow Parsers]
Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Nara)
[Word Segmentation]
Keh-Jiann Chen (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
[Statistical Models and Machine Learning for NLP]
Dekang Lin (University of Alberta, Alberta)
[Machine Translation and Multilinguality]
Franz Och (ISI-USC, Los Angeles)
Tiejun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin)
[Text Mining]
Kenji Yamanishi (NEC, Tokyo)
[Lexical Semantics, Ontology and Linguistic Resource]
Chu-Ren Huang (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa, Pisa)
[Text and Sentence Generation]
Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney)
[Dialogue and Discourse]
Laurent Romary (LORIA, Paris)
[Automatic Abstraction and Text Summarization]
Manabu Okumura(Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo)
[Information Extraction, Q/A]
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore,
Singapore)
[NLP Software and Application]
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang University of Science and
Technology, Pohang).
Declerck Thierry (DFKI and Saarland University,
Saarbruecken)
[Speech]
Chin-Hui Lee (Georgia Institute of Tech, Atlanta)
Chengqing Zong,(Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,)
[Thematic Sessions]
A Thematic Session provides a good occasion to focus
peoples with the same special interest, and let them meet
each other at a specific time-space to discuss and
exchange ideas.
The following proposals have been accepted as thematic
sessions. Please note that the deadline and procedure for
submitting papers to these sessions are the same as those
for general sessions. Also, the same quality standard
will be applied to evaluate various submissions across
general sessions and thematic sessions.
You will find the detailed submission procedure in our
website.
[TS-1] Natural Language Learning using Both Labeled and
Unlabeled Data
Organizer : Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing)
Recently, a new trend has arisen in the field of Natural
Language Processing (NLP): the development of machine
learning technologies that use both labeled and unlabeled
data for training. Methods that have been proposed under
this paradigm include co-training, EM learning,
transductive learning, and other semi-supervised learning
techniques. For many NLP tasks, existing data are by
their nature unlabeled and manually labeling them is
prohibitively expensive. Effective utilization of both
unlabeled and labeled data in learning is also a
challenging but important issue. The goal of this
thematic session is to bring together researchers working
on this issue from different perspectives, in order to
share their latest research results and to discuss future
directions. We think that this session will advance
research not only in exploiting unlabeled data but also
in other natural language learning issues.
[TS-2] Natural Language Technology in the Text Processing
User Interface
Organizers: Michael Kuehn (Universitaet Koblenz-Landau,
Koblenz)
Kumiko TANAKA-Ishii (University of Tokyo,
Tokyo)
The emergence of applications like mobile text processing,
communication aids and authoring support require
sophisticated methods of text processing under
challenging conditions. We invite researchers to discuss
language technologies such as (but not restricted to)
language modeling, analysis, summarization and
disambiguation, in order to assist the user at the text
processing front-end.
[TS-3] Mobile Information Retrieval
Organizer: Mun-Kew Leong (Institute for Infocomm Research,
Singapore)
One of the strongest impacts in recent information
technology is the way mobility has changed computer
applications. The rapid rate of handphone adoption, the
ubiquitous PDA, and the low cost of wireless adoption has
created new problems, new challenges, and new
opportunities to researchers in many disciplines. One
common thread through all these applications is the
necessity for information retrieval in one form or
another. Another characteristic is the limited screen
size of mobile devices and the consequent ramifications
on input and output. The use of NLP plays an integral
part in creating better user interfaces, better analysis
of results for precise display, and greater understanding
in the iterative interaction (dialogue) between user and
mobile device. We propose this workshop to explore user
oriented and theoretical limits
and characteristics of NLP and IR within the context of
mobile devices.
[TS-4] Text mining in Biomedicine
Organizers: Sophia Ananiadou (Salford University,
Manchester)
Jong C. Park @(KAIST, Daejeon)
With biomedical literature expanding so rapidly, there is
an urgent need to discover and organise knowledge
extracted from texts. Although factual databases contain
crucial information the overwhelming amount of new
knowledge remains in textual form (e.g. MEDLINE). In
addition, new terms are constantly coined as the
relationships linking new genes, drugs, proteins etc. As
the size of biomedical literature is expanding, more
systems are applying a variety of methods to automate the
process of knowledge acquisition and management. These
include a variety of techniques such as statistics,
machine learning, SVMs, deep or shallow linguistic or
domain knowledge etc. Some NLP related topics are
challenging in biomedicine such as: dynamic terminology
management, named-entity recognition , integration with
non-textual resources, discovery of named relationships,
populating and updating existing ontologies / taxonomies.
The aim of this thematic session is to examine issu
es and challenges in the area of biomedical text mining.
-------------------------------[International Advisory Committee of IJCNLP]
The following distinguished researchers have agreed to
oversee IJCNLP-04 and the future conferences.
Nicoletta Calzolari (Pisa)
Eva Hajicova (Prague)
Eduard Hovy (Los Angeles)
Mark Johnson (Rhode Island)
Aravind Joshi (Philadelphia)
Martin Kay (Palo Alto)
Bente Maegaard (Copenhagen)
Joseph Mariani (Paris)
Makoto Nagao (Kyoto)
Donia Scott (Brighton)
Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo)
Hans Uszkoreit (Saarbruecken)
Tianshun Yao (Shenyang)
---------------------------------[Steering Committee of IJCNLP]
Chair: Keh-Yih Su (Hsinchu)
Jason S. Chang (Hsinchu)
Key-Sun Choi (Daejeon)
Robert Dale (Sydney)
Tetsuya Ishikawa (Tsukuba)
Shun Ishizaki (Fujisawa)
Hyuk-Chul Kweon (Busan)
Jong-Hyeok Lee (Pohang)
Kim Teng Lua (Singapore)
Hammam Riza (Jakarta)
Rajeev Sangal (Hyderabad)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Bangkok)
Maosong Sun (Beijing)
Hideki Tanaka (Keihan-na)
Benjamin Tsou (Hongkong)
Jun-ichi Tsujii (Tokyo)
Lide Wu (Shanghai) (TBC)
Shiwen Yu (Beijing) (TBC)
Zaharin Yusoff (Penang)
--------------------[Organization of IJCNLP-04]
Honorary Chair
Nagao, Makoto (Kyoto University, Kyoto)
Conference Co-chairs
Ni, Guangnan (Chinese Academy of Engineering, Beijing)
Tsou, Benjamin K. (City University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong)
Program Committee Co-chairs
Su, Keh-Yih (Behavior Design Corporation, Taipei)
Tsujii, Jun-ichi (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Chair for Satellite Events
Choi, Key-Sun (KAIST, Daejeon)
Chair for Interactive Posters and Demos
Zhou, Ming (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing)
Local Organizing Committee Chair
Cao, Youqi (Chinese Information Processing Society of
China, Beijing)
(VC) Sun, Maosong (Tsinghua University, Beijing)
(External Liaison Person)
Publicity Chair
Isahara, Hitoshi (CRL, Kyoto)
Publication Chair
Jong Hyeok LEE (Postech, Pohang)
(VC) Kurohashi, Sadao (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Kwong, Olivia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong)
Financial Chair
Wong, Kam Fai (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong)
(VC) Lai, Tom (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
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