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<div class="">The 4th European and 7th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication</div>
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<div class="">29-30 September 2016</div>
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<div class="">Description</div>
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<div class="">The 4th European and 7th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication provides a multidisciplinary forum for researchers from different disciplines who study multimodality in human communication as well as in human-computer interaction. This year,
the multimodal communication symposium is organised by the Centre for Language Technology (CST), Department of Nordic Research, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. </div>
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<div class="">The symposium follows up on a tradition established by the Swedish Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 1997 till 2000, and continued by the Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 2003 to 2012. Since 2013 the symposium
has acquired a broader European dimension, with editions held in Malta, Estonia and Ireland. </div>
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<div class="">Multimodal communication as a research area is growing rapidly. There is indeed an increased interest in embodied and situated communication – how humans interact with each other using different modalities, as well as how technological artefacts
affect communicative activities. Workplaces as well as school environments, health care and other services increasingly involve complex multimodal communication. The development in innovative computer interfaces, mobile media and robotics makes new multimodal
technical solutions to communicative challenges possible while at the same time creating new challenges for communication research.</div>
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<div class="">As in the preceding editions, we present a broad view of the field by accepting papers on a wide range of topics. This year, however, a special track will be dedicated to studies of cross-linguistic comparisons.</div>
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<div class="">Topics addressed in the symposium cover all aspects of multimodal communication, including but not limited to:</div>
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<div class="">* Speech, gestures and signs in human communication</div>
<div class="">* Intercultural aspects of multimodal behaviour</div>
<div class="">* Multimodality aspects of language acquisition (both L1 and L2)</div>
<div class="">* Multimodal human computer interaction and conversational agents</div>
<div class="">* Multimodal systems for sign language users</div>
<div class="">* Multimodal health communication</div>
<div class="">* Multimodal communication, communication disorders and communication support (AAC)</div>
<div class="">* Multimodal dialogue systems</div>
<div class="">* Multimodal corpora</div>
<div class="">* Sign language corpora</div>
<div class="">* Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal corpora</div>
<div class="">* Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction</div>
<div class="">* Machine-learning techniques applied to multimodal data</div>
<div class="">* Evaluation methods for multimodal systems</div>
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<div class="">Invited speakers</div>
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<div class="">The plenary talk will be given by Prof Adam Kendon, University College of London. </div>
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<div class="">Important dates</div>
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<div class="">Deadline for abstract submissions: 6 June</div>
<div class="">Notification of acceptance: 4 July</div>
<div class="">Revised abstract: 5 September</div>
<div class="">Symposium dates: 29-30 September</div>
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<div class="">Submissions and announcement</div>
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<div class="">Authors are invited to submit anonymous abstracts of 2 pages in PDF format. Abstracts must be submitted at <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2016" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2016</a></div>
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<div class="">Documentation and dissemination</div>
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<div class="">A booklet of abstracts will be published online and distributed at the conference. A post-symposium peer-reviewed publication of selected long papers will be considered. </div>
<div class="">These papers will undergo a new round of reviewing.</div>
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<div class="">Organising committee</div>
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<div class="">Patrizia Paggio (Universities of Copenhagen and Malta)</div>
<div class="">Costanza Navarretta (University of Copenhagen)</div>
<div class="">Jens Allwood and Elisabeth Ahlsèn (University of Gothenburg)</div>
<div class="">Kristiina Jokinen (Universities of Helsinki and Tartu)</div>
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<div class="">Local organisers</div>
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<div class="">Patrizia Paggio</div>
<div class="">Costanza Navarretta</div>
<div class="">Bart Jongejan</div>
<div class="">Bjørn Wessel-Tolvig</div>
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<div class="">Programme committee</div>
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<div class="">Elisabeth Ahlsén, University of Gothenburg</div>
<div class="">Jens Allwood, University of Gothenburg</div>
<div class="">Kirsten Bergmann, University of Bielefield</div>
<div class="">Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin</div>
<div class="">Loredana Cerrato, Trinity College Dublin</div>
<div class="">Alan Cienki, VU Amsterdam and Moscow State Linguistic University</div>
<div class="">Onno Crasborn, Radboud University Nijmegen</div>
<div class="">Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow</div>
<div class="">Dirk Heylen, University of Twente</div>
<div class="">Kristiina Jokinen, University of Tartu</div>
<div class="">Stefan Kopp, University of Bielefield</div>
<div class="">Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen</div>
<div class="">Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen</div>
<div class="">Silvi Tenjes, University of Tartu</div>
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<div class="">Patrizia Paggio</div>
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<div class="">Senior Researcher</div>
<div class="">University of Copenhagen</div>
<div class="">Centre for Language Technology</div>
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<div class="">Associate Professor</div>
<div class="">University of Malta</div>
<div class="">Institute of Linguistics</div>
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