<div dir="ltr">[Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ========================================== Call for Papers AREA will take place in conjunction with the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) and is organized as a half-day session with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop. Date: 7 May 2018 Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort Location: Miyazaki, Japan <a href="http://www.areaworkshop.org/">http://www.areaworkshop.org/</a> WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS ============================================= There has recently been increased interest in modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Additionally, action modeling has emerged as an important topic in robotics and HCI. The goal of this workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas in which actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, human-computer communication, document design, as well as modeling multimodal human-human interactions involving actions. Action modeling is an inherently multi-disciplinary area, involving contributions from computational linguistics, AI, semantics, robotics, psychology, and formal logic. While there has been considerable attention in the community paid to the representation and recognition of events (e.g., the development of ISO-TimeML and associated specifications, and the 4 Workshops on “EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation”), the goals of this workshop are focused specifically on actions undertaken by embodied agents as opposed to events in the abstract. By concentrating on actions, we hope to attract those researchers working in computational semantics, gesture, dialogue, HCI, robotics, and other areas, in order to develop a community around action as a communicative modality where their work can be communicated and shared. This community will be a venue for the development and evaluation of resources regarding the integration of action recognition and processing in human-computer communication. We invite submissions on foundational, conceptual, and practical issues involving modeling actions, as described by natural language expressions and gestures, and as depicted by images and videos. Relevant topics include but are not limited to: - dynamic models of actions - formal semantic models of actions - affordance modeling - manipulation action modeling - linking multimodal descriptions and presentations of actions (image, text, icon, video) - automatic action recognition from text, images, and videos - communicating and performing actions with robots or avatars for joint tasks - action language grounding - evaluation of action models IMPORTANT DATES ================ Deadline for paper submission: 7 January 2018 Review deadline: 1 February 2018 Notification of acceptance: 11 February 2018 Deadline for camera-ready version: 1 March 2018 Early registration deadline: TBA Workshop Date: 7 May 2018 SUBMISSION ========== Three types of submissions are invited: - Research papers, describing original research; these can be either long (6-8 pages, not including references) or short (3-4 pages, not including references); - Project notes, describing recent, ongoing or planned projects (2-4 pages including references); - Demonstration notes, accompanying demonstration of software, tools, or systems (2-4 pages including references). We will decide whether to have an oral or poster presentation, depending on reviewer suggestions and the overall workshop schedule. Papers should be in compliance with the style sheet adopted for the LREC Proceedings. The AREA proceedings will be published in the LREC 2018 proceedings. Papers should be submitted through the START conference manager set up for LREC 2018. 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 have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). MORE INFORMATION ================= For more information visit the workshop webpage at: <a href="http://www.areaworkshop.org/">http://www.areaworkshop.org/</a> Or contact us at: <a href="mailto:jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu">jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:i.f.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl">i.f.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl</a> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ====================== Jan Alexanderson DFKI Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland Anja Belz University of Brighton Johan Bos University of Groningen Kirsten Bergmann Bielefeld University Harry Bunt Tilburg University Simon Dobnik University of Gothenburg Eren Erdal Aksoy Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie Kristiina Jokinen AIRC AIST Johan Kwisthout Radboud University Nijmegen Nikhil Krishnaswamy Brandeis University Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh Andy Lucking Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Siddharth Narayanaswamy University of Oxford Paul Piwek Open University Matthias Rehm Aalborg University Gisela Redeker University of Groningen Daniel Sonntag DFKI Michael McTear University of Ulster Mariet Theune University of Twente David Traum USC Institute for Creative Technologies Florentin Wörgötte Georg-August University Göttingen Luke Zettlemoyer UW CSE ORGANIZERS =========== James Pustejovsky Brandeis University Ielka van de Sluis University of Groningen -- <div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"> <div><div>______________________________________ Ielka van der Sluis Department of Communication and Information Sciences Center for Language and Cognition Groningen Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen Oude Kijk in ’t Jatstraat 26 9712 EK Groningen, the Netherlands office: Harmoniegebouw 1312-428 <a href="http://www.rug.nl/staff/i.f.van.der.sluis/" target="_blank">http://www.rug.nl/staff/i.f.van.der.sluis/</a> email: <a href="mailto:I.F.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl" target="_blank">I.F.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl</a> phone office: +31 (0)50 363 5813 phone mobile: +31 (0)63 151 6041 phone secretary: +31 (0)50 363 5858 ______________________________________ </div></div></div></div></div></div> </div>