[Corpora-List] CFP: MLMI'07 - Machine Learning and Multimodal Interaction

From: Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis@issco.unige.ch)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2006 - 15:27:47 MET

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    MLMI'07 first announcement and call for papers:

                      4th Joint Workshop on Machine Learning
                        and Multimodal Interaction (MLMI'07)

                                 28-30 June 2007
                              Brno, Czech Republic

                              http://www.mlmi07.org

    The fourth MLMI workshop is coming to Brno in the Czech Republic,
    following successful workshops in Martigny (2004), Edinburgh (2005) and
    Washington, DC (2006). MLMI brings together researchers from the
    different communities working on the common theme of advanced machine
    learning algorithms applied to multimodal human-human and human-computer
    interaction. The motivation for creating this joint multi-disciplinary
    workshop arose from the actual needs of several large collaborative
    projects.

    MLMI'07 will follow on directly from the annual conference of the
    Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL/EACL 2007), which will
    take place in Prague on June 25-27, 2007.

    * Important dates

    Submission of full papers: 23 February 2007
    Submission of extended abstracts: 23 March 2007
    Submission of demonstration proposals: 23 March 2007
    Acceptance decisions: 17 April 2007
    Workshop: 28-30 June 2007

    * Workshop topics

    MLMI'07 will feature talks (including a number of invited speakers),
    posters and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit
    proposals in the following areas of interest, related to machine
    learning and multimodal interaction:
      - human-human communication modeling
      - human-computer interaction modeling
      - speech processing
      - image and video processing
      - multimodal processing, fusion and fission
      - multimodal discourse and dialogue modeling
      - multimodal indexing, structuring and summarization
      - annotation and browsing of multimodal data
      - machine learning algorithms and their applications to the topics above

    * Satellite events

    MLMI'07 will feature special sessions and satellite events such as the
    Summer school of the European Masters in Speech and Language
    (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/emasters/) and the PASCAL Speech Separation
    Challenge II (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlincol1/SSC2/). To propose
    other special sessions or satellite events for MLMI'07, please contact
    the organizing committee.

    * Guidelines for submission

    In common with the previous MLMI workshops, revised versions of selected
    papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    series (cf. LNCS 3361, 3869, 4299).

    Submissions are invited in one of the following formats:
      - full papers for oral or poster presentation (12 pages)
      - extended abstracts for poster presentation only (1-2 pages)
      - demonstration proposals (1-2 pages)

    Please submit PDF files using the submission website at
    http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlmi07/, following the Springer LNCS format
    for proceedings and other multiauthor volumes
    (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0).

    * Venue

    Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic and the capital of
    Moravia. Brno had been a royal city since 1347 and is the country's
    judiciary and trade-fair center. With a population of almost four
    hundred thousand and its six universities, Brno is also the cultural
    center of the region.

    Brno can be easily reached by direct flights from Prague, London and
    Munich and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130 km).

    MLMI'07 will take place at the Hotel Continental
    (http://www.continentalbrno.cz), a modern hotel located in a quiet part
    of the city within walking distance from the city center. The local
    organizers are members of the Faculty of Information Technology
    (http://www.fit.vutbr.cz) at Brno University of Technology, which was
    founded in 1899 as the Czech Technological University.

    * Organizing Committee

    Honza Cernocky, Brno University of Technology (organization co-chair)
    Andrei Popescu-Belis, University of Geneva (programme chair)
    Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh (special sessions)
    Pavel Zemcik, Brno University of Technology (organization co-chair)

    * Programme Committee (to be extended)

    Marc Al-Hames, Munich University of Technology
    Jan Alexandersson, DFKI
    Tilman Becker, DFKI
    Samy Bengio, IDIAP
    Herve Bourlard, IDIAP
    Nick Campbell, ATR
    Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh
    Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Honza Cernocky, Brno University of Technology
    John Garofolo, NIST
    Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP
    Luc van Gool, ETHZ
    Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield (area chair)
    James Henderson, University of Edinburgh
    Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP
    Vaclav Hlavac, Czech Technical University Prague (area chair)
    Alejandro Jaimes, Fuji
    Denis Lalanne, University of Fribourg
    Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas (area chair)
    Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva
    Jean-Claude Martin, LIMSI
    Roderick Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow
    Nelson Morgan, ICSI
    Sharon Oviatt, OGI/OHSU (area chair)
    Andrei Popescu-Belis, University of Geneva (programme chair)
    Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh
    Elizabeth Shriberg, SRI and ICSI
    Rainer Stiefelhagen, University of Karlsruhe (area chair)
    Jean-Philippe Thiran, EPFL
    Pierre Wellner, IDIAP
    Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Pavel Zemcik, Brno University of Technology

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