Call for Papers

The present workshop aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum to present results and discuss issues that concern research on human multimodal communication, its modelling and representation for computational systems. We invite unpublished contributions in these field. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• Cognitive aspects of multimodal communication
• Formal frameworks and descriptions of multimodal communication
• Representational issues (e.g. definition of annotation units, granularity of descriptions, spatio-temporal models of non-verbal modalities, definition of default values, representation of multimodal meaning, inclusion of world context etc.)
• Interaction of the different modalities
• Multimodality in intercultural communication
• Definition of communicative functions in multimodal communication
• Methodologies and tools to annotate, process and/or produce multimodal communication
• Multimodal signal processing and its integration with manual annotation
• The annotation and validation of multimodal data
• Machine learning applied to multimodal data

Submission Information

Submissions should follow the two-column format of EACL proceedings, as NODALIDA (see the information for authors under NODALIDA 2009) and must use either the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word document template.

Paper submissions should not exceed six (6) pages, including references. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

Submission must be electronic and must be sent at multicom2009 @ cst.dk and costanza @ hum.ku.dk no later than March 10, 2009.

The only accepted format for submitted papers is Adobe PDF.

Important Dates

Full paper submission: March 10, 2009
Notification: April 1, 2009
Camera-ready paper submission: April 16, 2009
Multimodal Communication Workshop: May 14, 2009

Proceedings

The Workshop proceedings will be published in the NEALT electronic Proceedings series.