[iva] CFP: LREC 2016 Workshop - Just Talking

[Emer Gilmartin]

**** 1st Call for Papers ****
*LREC 2016 Workshop*
*Just talking – casual talk among humans and machines*

*Grand Hotel Bernardin Conference Center*
*Saturday, 28 May 2016, morning session**.*


Deadline for submission of papers and abstracts: 14 February 2016


Workshop website: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/JustTalking/





This workshop will focus on collection and analysis of resources, novel
research, and applications in both human-human and human-machine casual
interaction

A 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.


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.

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.



Topics include but are not limited to:

·       Corpora of social talk (human-human, human-machine)

·       Annotations and analysis tools for social talk

·       Analyses of features contributing to social talk - acoustic,
visual, biometric...

·       Demonstrations of systems modelling social talk



*Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!*

·       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.

·       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, www.islrn.org), 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.



*Important dates*

• Deadline for submission of papers and abstracts: 14 February 2016

• Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2016

• Final version of accepted paper: 17 March 2016

• Workshop: 28 May 2016



*Submissions*

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.

Submissions (in pdf form) should be made through the START V2 conference
manager website at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/JustTalking/

.



*Registration*

Registration and fees will be managed by LREC (
http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/)



*Organizing committee*

Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin

Emer Gilmartin, Trinity College Dublin

Laurence Devillers, LIMSI, Paris

Sophie Rosset, LIMSI, Paris

Guillaume Dubuisson Duplessis, LIMSI, Paris
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