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<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.4pt;
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align="center"><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">LAUGHTER
WORKSHOP 2018</span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.4pt;margin-left:
0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Following
the previous workshops on laughter held in </span><a
href="http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-07/"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Saarbruecken</span></a><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">
(2007), </span><a
href="http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-09/"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Berlin</span></a><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">
(2009), </span><a
href="http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-12/"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Dublin</span></a><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">
(2012) and </span><a
href="https://laughterworkshop2015.wordpress.com/about-the-workshop/"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Enschede</span></a><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">
(2015), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming
workshop in Paris, France in September 2018.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.4pt;margin-left:
0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Non-verbal
vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions
play important roles in displaying social and affective
behaviors and in controlling the flow of interaction.
Laughter, sighs, filled pauses, and short utterances such as
feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal
vocalisations that have been studied previously from various
research fields. However, much is still unknown about the
phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations
(production/encoding) and their relations to their intentions
and perceived meanings (perception/decoding) in interaction.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.4pt;margin-left:
0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The
goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from
diverse research areas and to provide an exchange forum for
interdisciplinary discussions in order to gain a better
understanding of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations.
The workshop will consist of invited talks and oral
presentations of ongoing research and discussion papers.</span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.4pt;margin-left:
0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">We
invite contributions concerning laughter and other non-verbal
vocalisations from the fields of phonetics, linguistics,
psychology, conversation analysis, social signal processing,
and human-machine/robot interaction. In particular, topics
related to the following aspects are very much welcomed:</span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.4pt;margin-left:
0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">*
Multimodal interaction: visual aspects of non-verbal
vocalisations, e.g., smiles, relation between non-verbal
vocalisations and visual behaviors<br>
* Social and affective behavior: decoding and encoding of
emotion/socio-related states in non-verbal vocalisations<br>
* Conversation: (pragmatic) role of non-verbal vocalisations
in dialog<br>
* Computation: automatic analysis and generation of non-verbal
vocalisations</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Submission procedure<br>
——————–<br>
Researchers are invited to submit an extended abstract of
their work, including work in progress. Please send your
extended abstract of max. 4 pages, 11pt font (including
references) in PDF format to <b><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:laughterworkshop2018@isir.upmc.fr">laughterworkshop2018@isir.upmc.fr</a></b>.
Each submission should follow the ACL style – the author kits
(LaTeX and Word) can be downloaded from the workshop web site.
In the email, please include the name of the authors, their
affiliations and the email address of the corresponding
author, and a title of the abstract. Abstracts will undergo a
review process performed by at least 2 reviewers. The
submissions will be made available online.</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.4pt;margin-left:
0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Registration<br>
————<br>
Attendees are asked to register by sending an email to
laughterworkshop2018 at isir dot upmc dot fr. </span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Important dates<br>
—————<br>
* Abstract submission deadline: 26 May 2018<br>
* Notification acceptance/rejection: 29 June 2018<br>
* Registration deadline by email: 14 September 2018<br>
* Workshop dates: 27-28 September 2018</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444">Venue<br>
—–<br>
ISIR, Sorbonne University </span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><a href="http://www.isir.upmc.fr/">http://www.isir.upmc.fr/</a><span
style="color:#444444"></span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444"> </span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Website<br>
——-<br>
Please check the website </span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><a
href="http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/%7Epelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html</span></a><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">for updated information about the workshop</span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:#444444; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p
style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="color:#444444; mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Organizers<br>
———-</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS – ISIR, Sorbonne
University</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Jonathan Ginzburg, University Paris Diderot</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and
Phonetics, Saarland University<br>
Nick Campbell, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication
Sciences, Trinity College Dublin<br>
Khiet Truong, Human Media Interaction, University of
Twente/Radboud University<br>
Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444">Contact information<br>
——————-<br>
Catherine Pelachaud</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><span style="color:#444444">CNRS – ISIR, Sorbonne
University</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:
baseline"><a href="mailto:catherine.pelachaud@upmc.fr"><span
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">catherine.pelachaud@upmc.fr</span></a><span
style="color:#444444;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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