[Corpora-List] ESSLLI 2004 Workshop CfP: NLP for Multimedia Applications

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                                       CALL FOR PAPERS

                                NLP for Multimedia Applications

                              http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/esslli04.htm

                                     16-20 August, Nancy

    organised as part of the European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information
     ESSLLI 2004 (http://esslli2004.loria.fr/) 9-20 August, 2004 in Nancy

    Workshop Organizers:
    Thierry Declerck (declerck@dfki.deb)
    Elisabeth André (andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de)

    Workshop Purpose:
    The Workshop aims to provide a discussion platform between advanced PhD students and researchers, who are interested in the topics typically addressed at ESSLLI,
    and possible multimedia applications involving research results from Language Processing. The submissions should not necessarily describe achieved work, but can
     present advanced ideas on how to combine NLP and Multimedia applications.

    Workshop Topics:
    The workshop will explore some issues on the role natural language processing (NLP) can play
    within the increasing number of multimedia (MM) applications that more and more are
    influencing our everyday life. Multimodality can be addressed as well, as long as multimedia
    aspects are considered. Main questions to be addressed will be:

    - How to integrate multimedia input including natural language (spoken or written);
    - How to combine natural language with other media in order to generate high quality multimedia output;
    - How to make use of NL for efficient access to MM archives, Including interactive retrieval;
    - Multimedia segmentation, indexing, summarization, and presentation;
    - Multimedia and multimodal interaction;
    - How to extend multilingual NLP applications (like Question Answering etc) into a multi-source and multimedia setting;
    - Representation (and reasoning about) of multimedia/multimodal discourse and context

    The workshop will also investigate the type of formalisms and standards to be used for this
    integration task. Contributions on basic research and on running or achieved projects dealing
    with the topics are welcome.

    Papers addressing one or more of the following topics are also welcome, but there should be
    some clear possible relationships to NLP, including logical issues:
    MPEG, multimedia/multimodal content, coding schemes, metadata, knowledge representation for
    multimedia content (multimedia ontologies), semantic annotation of multimedia content or search,
    retrieval and Web applications.

    Submission details:
    Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original work or proposals on the topics
    mentioned above. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages and are not anonymous. The following
    formats are accepted: PDF or PS. Please send your submissions electronically to Thierry
    Declerck (declerck@dfki.de), mentioning "NLP_MM Submission" in the subject line of your mail. Your submission
    will be reviewed by at least two reviewers of the Programme Committee or additional reviewers. The accepted papers
     will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI.
    The format for the final version will be following the ACL style (details on the ACL 2002 styles can be found at
    http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style/). So the submissions should ideally be conformant to this one.

    Workshop Format:
    The Workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI participants.
    It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over five consecutive days in the second
    Week of ESSLLI. There will 2 or 3 slots for paper presentation and discussion per session.
    On the first day the organisers will give an introduction to the workshop topics.

    Programm Committee:
    Noelle Carbonell, LORIA, CNRS & INRIA (Nancy & Paris, France)
     
    Jean-Michel Borde, Digital Visuel (Paris, France)
    Yiannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH/ITI (Thessaloniki, Greece)
    Laurent Romary, Loria (Nancy, France)
    Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg (Augsburg, Germany)
    Thierry Declerck, University of Saarland & DFKI GmbH (Saarbrücken, Germany)
    Horacio Saggion, University of Sheffield (Sheffield, England)
    Jan Kuper, University of Twente (Twente, The Netherlands)
    Marcel Worring, ISIS at University of Amsterdam, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary College (London, England)
    Joachim Koehler, Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication (Bonn, Germany)
     
    Local Arrangements:
    All workshop participants are required to register for ESSLLI. The
    registration fee for authors presenting a paper will be the same as
    the early student/workshop speaker registration fee.

    Important Dates:
    Submissions: March 5, 2004
    Notification: April 19, 2004
    ESSLLI early registration: May 1, 2004
    Preliminary programme: April 23, 2004
    Final programme: June 25, 2004
    Workshop: August 16-20, 2004

    Further Information:
    About ESSLLI: ESSLLI 2004 in Nancy
    About the Workshop: http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/esslli04.htm



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