[iva] 2nd CFP - Laughter Workshop 2018

Catherine PELACHAUD catherine.pelachaud at upmc.fr
Thu May 3 16:47:58 CEST 2018


LAUGHTER WORKSHOP 2018

Following the previous workshops on laughter held in Saarbruecken 
<http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-07/>(2007), Berlin 
<http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-09/>(2009), Dublin 
<http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-12/>(2012) and Enschede 
<https://laughterworkshop2015.wordpress.com/about-the-workshop/>(2015), 
we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming workshop in Paris, France 
in September 2018.

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.

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.

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:

* Multimodal interaction: visual aspects of non-verbal vocalisations, 
e.g., smiles, relation between non-verbal vocalisations and visual behaviors
* Social and affective behavior: decoding and encoding of 
emotion/socio-related states in non-verbal vocalisations
* Conversation: (pragmatic) role of non-verbal vocalisations in dialog
* Computation: automatic analysis and generation of non-verbal vocalisations

Submission procedure
——————–
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 
*laughterworkshop2018 at isir.upmc.fr*. 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.

Registration
————
Attendees are asked to register by sending an email to 
laughterworkshop2018 at isir dot upmc dot fr.

Important dates
—————
* Abstract submission deadline:  26 May 2018
* Notification acceptance/rejection:  29 June 2018
* Registration deadline by email: 14 September 2018
* Workshop dates: 27-28 September 2018

Venue
—–
ISIR, Sorbonne University

http://www.isir.upmc.fr/

Website
——-
Please check the website

http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html 
<http://pages.isir.upmc.fr/%7Epelachaud/site/LaughterWorkshop18.html>

for updated information about the workshop

Organizers
———-

Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS – ISIR, Sorbonne University

Jonathan Ginzburg, University Paris Diderot

Jürgen Trouvain, Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland 
University
Nick Campbell, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, 
Trinity College Dublin
Khiet Truong, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente/Radboud 
University
Dirk Heylen, Human Media Interaction, University of Twente

Contact information
——————-
Catherine Pelachaud

CNRS – ISIR, Sorbonne University

catherine.pelachaud at upmc.fr <mailto:catherine.pelachaud at upmc.fr>

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