[iva] 2nd CfP ESSLLI workshop: AREA-II - Annotation, Recognition and Evaluation of Actions

[van der sluis, ielka]

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

AREA- II will be an online event at the 32nd European Summer School in
Logic, Language and Information - ESSLLI 2021. AREA-II is organized in the
first ESSLLI week with plenary talks, posters and demonstrations. AREA-II
is a SIGSEM-sponsored workshop.

Date: 2 - 3 August 2021

http://www.areaworkshop.org/


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION MOTIVATION AND TOPICS

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AREA II is the follow up on the first AREA meeting at LREC 2018  (
http://www.areaworkshop.org/). 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
the AREA II workshop is to gather and discuss advances in research areas
where actions are paramount e.g., virtual embodied agents, robotics, HRI,
human-computer communication, 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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First CfP: 8 April

Final CfP: 30 April 2021

Deadline for paper submission: May 16, 2021

Review deadline: 16 June 2021

Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2021

Deadline for camera-ready version: 11 July 2021

Workshop Date: 2-3 August 2021


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 formatted following the common two-column structure as
used by ACL. Please use style templates, which are available as an Overleaf
template
<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-acl-ijcnlp-2021-proceedings/mhxffkjdwymb>
and can also be downloaded directly (Latex and Word
<https://2021.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ijcnlp2021-templates.zip>). The
templates themselves contain only specific notes (e.g., LaTeX notes in the
.tex file). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to *ACL
conferences available here
<https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>. Similar to ACL 2021,
initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind
reviewing.

Papers should be submitted via softcon.com  the AREA-II website (
http://www.areaworkshop.org/) will provide a link for submitting papers.


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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Eren Aksoy Halmstad University

Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland

Johan Bos University of Groningen

Harry Bunt Tilburg University

Simon Dobnik University of Gothenburg

Kristiina Jokinen University of Helsinki

Johan Kwisthout Radboud University Nijmegen

Alex Lascarides University of Edinburgh

Andy Lucking Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Paul Piwek Open University

Gisela Redeker University of Groningen

David Traum USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Janina Wildfeuer University of Groningen

Florentin Wörgötte Georg-August University Göttingen


ORGANIZERS

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James Pustejovsky Brandeis University

Ielka van de Sluis University of Groningen


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Ielka van der Sluis

Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

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9712 EK Groningen, the Netherlands
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