<div dir="ltr"><div><div class=""><b>****** Deadline Extended: 26 February ******</b></div><div class=""> <br></div><div class=""><b>Workshop: "Just talking – casual talk among humans and machines"</b></div><div class=""> <br></div><div class=""><b>Venue: Grand Hotel Bernardin Conference Center, Portorož (Slovenia)<br></b></div><div class=""> <br></div><div class=""><b>Saturday, 28 May 2016, morning session.</b></div><div class=""> <br></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'Source Sans Pro',Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:28px">Submissions: <a href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/JustTalking/" target="_blank">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/JustTalking/</a></div><div class=""><br></div><div class="">Apologies for multiple postings. Please forward</div><div class=""> <br></div><div class=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">This workshop will focus on collection and analysis of resources, novel research, and applications in both human-human and human-machine casual interactionA major distinction between different types of spoken interaction is whether the goal is ‘transactional’ or ‘interactional’. Transactional, or task-based, talk has short-term goals which are clearly defined and known to the participants – as in service encounters in shops or business meetings. Task-based conversations rely heavily on the transfer of linguistic or lexical information. In technology, most spoken dialogue systems have been task-based, designed under the constraints of Allen’s Task Based Dialog Hypothesis for reasons of tractability (Allen et al., 2000), concentrating on practical activities such as travel planning.However, in real-life social talk there is often no obvious short term task to be accomplished through speech and the purpose of the interaction is better described as building and maintaining social bonds and transferring attitudinal or affective information - examples of this interactional talk include greetings, gossip, and social chat or small talk. A tenant’s short chat about the weather with the concierge of an apartment block is not intended to transfer important meteorological data but rather to build a relationship which may serve either of the participants in the future. Of course, most transactional encounters are peppered with social or interactional elements as the establishment and maintenance of friendly relationships contributes to task success.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">There is increasing interest in modelling interactional talk for applications including social robotics, education, health and companionship. In order to successfully design and implement these applications, there is a need for greater understanding of the mechanics of social talk, particularly its multimodal features. This understanding relies on relevant language resources (corpora, analysis tools), analysis, and experimental technologies.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">This workshop will provide a focal point for the growing research community on social talk to discuss available resources and ongoing work. We invite submissions on all aspects of social talk and its applications in technology.<br>Topics include but are not limited to:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;list-style-type:square"><li>Corpora of social talk (human-human, human-machine)</li><li>Annotations and analysis tools for social talk</li><li>Analyses of features contributing to social talk - acoustic, visual, biometric...</li><li>Demonstrations of systems modelling social talk</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px"><b>Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!</b></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;list-style-type:square"><li>Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.</li><li>As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2016 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN,<a href="http://www.islrn.org/"> www.islrn.org</a>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px"><b>Important dates</b></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;list-style-type:square"><li>Deadline for submission of papers and abstracts: 14 February 2016</li><li>Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2016</li><li>Final version of accepted paper: 17 March 2016</li><li>Final program and proceedings: 6 April 2016</li><li>Workshop: 28 May 2016</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px"><b>Submissions</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">We will accept short research papers (maximum 4 pages) for oral or poster presentation, and welcome shorter abstracts (maximum 2 pages) for demonstrations of novel research and technological applications.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">Submissions (in pdf form) should be made through the START V2 conference manager website at <a href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/JustTalking/">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/JustTalking/</a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px"><b>Registration</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">Registration will be via the LREC website, which will also specify fees.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px"><b>Organizing committee</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">Emer Gilmartin, Trinity College Dublin</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">Laurence Devillers, LIMSI, Paris</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 28px">Sophie Rosset, LIMSI, Paris</p></div><div class="" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:'Source Sans Pro',Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:28px">Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, LIMSI, Paris<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">-- </span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Speech Communication Lab<br>School of Computer Science and Statistics <br>Trinity College Dublin <br>Dublin 2 <br>Ireland <br>Éire<div></div></div></div></div> </div>