[iva] Final Call for Papers: Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld, 15-16 June 2020 - Deadline extension

[Catherine PELACHAUD]

Final Call for Papers:
Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld, 
15-16 June 2020

The submission deadline for the workshop has been extended until 
February 29 (see below).

Following the previous meetings held in Dublin (2012), Enschede (2015), 
and Paris (2018), we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming 
workshop in Bielefeld.
Non-verbal vocalisations such as laughs, sighs, filled pauses, and short 
utterances can communicate emotions and behavioural intentions. Often, 
they also play an important role in regulating interactions.
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 in human-human and human-machine 
interactions. The workshop will consist of invited talks, oral, and 
poster presentations of ongoing research.
We invite contributions from all relevant fields, including phonetics, 
linguistics, psychology, conversation analysis, social signal 
processing, and human-machine/robot interaction.

Submission procedure
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Researchers are invited to submit short papers or abstracts (max. 4 
pages, including references) describing their work, including work in 
progress. All submissions should use the ACL template 
(http://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip). Submission 
website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lw-2020.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted 
papers will be made available online.

Important dates
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* Submission portal opens: 14 January 2020
* Submission deadline:  29 February 2020
* Notification acceptance/rejection:  31 March 2020
* Registration deadline by email: 01 June 2020
* Workshop dates: 15-16 June 2020

Keynote speakers
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Khiet Truong (University of Twente)
Greg Bryant (UCLA)

Venue
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CITEC, Bielefeld University
https://cit-ec.de/en

Website
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Please check the website
http://bit.ly/laughterWorkshop
for updated information about the workshop

Programme Committee
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Nick Campbell - School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, 
Trinity College Dublin
Kevin El Haddad - University of Mons
Jonathan Ginzburg - University Paris Diderot
Dirk Heylen - Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
Bogdan Ludusan - Bielefeld University
Gary McKeown - Queen's University Belfast
Catherine Pelachaud - CNRS – ISIR, Sorbonne University
Magdalena Rychlowska - Queen's University Belfast
Jürgen Trouvain - Computational Linguistics and Phonetics, Saarland 
University
Khiet Truong - Human Media Interaction, University of Twente
Petra Wagner - Bielefeld University