<div dir="ltr"> [Apologies for X-posts.] AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions ========================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The first AREA workshop 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. AREA includes a keynote by Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg). Date: 7 May 2018 Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort Location: Miyazaki, Japan <a href="http://www.areaworkshop.org/" target="_blank">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. AREA PROGRAMME ============================================================= 9.00 - 9.15 Introduction 9.15 - 10.00 Keynote: Language, Action, and Perception, Simon Dobnik (University of Gothenburg) 10.00 - 10.10 Discussion 10.10 - 10.30 Action Hierarchy Extraction and its Application, Aliaksandr Huminski, Hao Zhang 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 - 11.20 Human-Robot Dialogue and Collaboration in Search and Navigation, Claire Bonial, Stephanie Lukin, Ashley Foots, Cassidy Henry, Matthew Marge,Ron Artstein, David Traum, Clare R. Voss 11.20 - 12.30 Poster presentations (see below) 12.30 - 13.00 Road Map Discussion Posters: - Laughter and Body Movements as Communicative Actions in Encounters Kristiina Jokinen, Trung Ngo Trong - Learning Actions from Events Using Agent Motions Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Tuan Do, and James Pustejovsky - Action Identification and Local Equivalence of Action Verbs: the Annotation Framework of the IMAGACT Ontology Massimo Moneglia, Alessandro Panunzi, Lorenzo Gregori - Action Categorisation in Multimodal Instructions Ielka van der Sluis, Renate Vergeer, Gisela Redeker -VANNOTATOR: a Gesture-driven Annotation Framework for Linguistic and Multimodal Annotation Christian Spiekermann, Giuseppe Abrami, Alexander Mehler MORE INFORMATION ================== For more information visit the workshop webpage at: <a href="http://www.areaworkshop.org/" target="_blank">http://www.areaworkshop.org/</a> Or contact us at: <a href="mailto:jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu" target="_blank">jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:i.f.van.der.Sluis@rug.nl" target="_blank">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" data-smartmail="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>