[iva] Ultimate Call for papers - AREA workshop - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions

Sluis, van der, I.F. i.f.van.der.sluis at rug.nl
Thu Jan 11 12:01:31 CET 2018


AREA - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions
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Call for Papers



*[Deadline extension for paper submission: 14 January 2018]*





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.



Date: 7 May 2018

Venue: the Phoenix Seagaia Resort

Location: Miyazaki, Japan

http://www.areaworkshop.org/





WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS

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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

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*Deadline for paper submission: 14 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

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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

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For more information visit the workshop webpage at:
http://www.areaworkshop.org/

Or contact us at: jamesp at cs.brandeis.edu, i.f.van.der.Sluis at rug.nl





PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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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

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

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James Pustejovsky                  Brandeis University

Ielka van de Sluis                    University of Groningen






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Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

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