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CAFFEi 2008 : Computational aspects of affectual and emotional interaction

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Link: http://caffei.iit.demokritos.gr/
 
When Jul 21, 2008 - Jul 22, 2008
Where Patras, Greece
Submission Deadline Apr 18, 2008
Notification Due May 19, 2008
Categories    artificial intelligence   HCI   computational linguistics   NLP
 

Call For Papers

THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS

CAFFEi-2008

Workshop on Computational aspects of affectual and emotional interaction
21-22 July 2008, Patras, Greece
http://caffei.iit.demokritos.gr/

The workshop is organized as part of the 18th European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008) and will be held in July 2008,
in Patras, Greece.

NEW DEADLINE: 18 April 2008

Please note that papers may be submitted to ECAI (main conference) as
well as CAFFEi with the right to retract your submission if accepted
at ECAI.


Description and Topics
======================

A key enabling technology for next-generation artificial intelligence
agents for the service, domestic and entertainment market is natural
human-computer interaction. An AI agent that collaborates with humans
on a daily basis requires interactive skills that go beyond
present-day language technology: seamless and natural interaction
requires that the AI agent is able to correctly interpret (and to some
some extend also generate) linguistic signals that involve the
emotional state of the person they interact with, to behave
differently in different emotional contexts, to exhibit a different
personality in order to co-operate well with humans having different
personalities, and to correctly interpret humour or irony.

CAFFEi aims to bring together researchers working on the computational
modelling of emotions and affect, and especially their linguistic
realization, for the purposes of affectual human-computer interaction.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* affect and emotion recognition and generation, and particularly
linguistic aspects thereof in text and speech;
* personality trait modelling, and impact of computer personality
traits and affect analysis on natural language generation and
dialogue management;
* evaluation of emotional impact of automatically generated text;
* evaluation methods for emotion-sensitive parsing, generation, and
dialogue management;
* emotion text classification and affect text classification,
used to evaluate or analyse human-computer or human-human
interaction;
* generating and recognizing humour and irony;
* non-linguistic aspects of human-computer interaction, such as
facial, gesture, and posture recognition, audio signal processing,
avatars and virtual faces, etc., especially when used in
conjunction to linguistic interaction modalities.


Invited Speaker
===============

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg,
will deliver a talk during the workshop.


Important Dates
===============

Apr 18: paper submission
May 19: notification
May 28: camera-ready copy
May 30: author registration
July 21 or 22: workshop date.


Participation and Paper Submission
==================================

The language of the conference will be English and we invite research
papers, work-in-progress papers, and position papers. All submissions
will be reviewed by an international programme committee.

Workshop proceedings will be prepared in paper and on CD-ROM. Each
participant will receive a hardcopy of CAFFEi proceedings, as well as
a CD with the proceedings of all ECAI'08 workshops. Workshop authors
will maintain the copyrights of their papers, but will be required to
to sign a form allowing inclusion in the proceedings. The possibility
of a journal special issue will be discussed during the workshop.

Submissions should follow the style described in the
ECAI-08 guidelines and be up to 10 pages in length,
including title, author names, abstract, body, and references.
Please use PDF as file format. Latex styles files implementing
ECAI guidelines can be found here:
http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/documents/ecai2008.zip

Papers may be submitted to ECAI (main conference) as well as CAFFEi
with the right to retract your submission if accepted at ECAI. Please
mention in the submission email whether you have also submitted to
ECAI.

Submissions should be made by email to
caffei-submissions@iit.demokritos.gr
with the submission PDF attached. In case of unusually large files or
need for any other clarifications, please email at the same address.


Registration
============

Workshop attendants are required to register to the main conference
and to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted workshop
paper is required to register.

Registration will be done through the ECAI-08 registration site,
http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/registration.htm


Workshop Co-Chairs
==================

Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos"
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos"
Colin Matheson, University of Edinburgh
Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh


Organizing Committee
====================

Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR "Demokritos"
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos"
Vassiliki Rentoumi, NCSR "Demokritos"
Vassilis Spiliopoulos, NCSR "Demokritos"
Dimitris Vogiatzis, NCSR "Demokritos"


Program Committee
=================

Ion Androutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Vangelis Karkaletsis (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
Stasinos Konstantopoulos (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
Valia Kordoni (DFKI GmbH and Saarland University, Germany)
Colin Matheson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University, USA)
Tony Mullen (Tsuda University, Japan)
Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Stelios Piperidis (Institute of Language and Speech Processing, Greece)
Graeme Ritchie (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Marina Sokolova (University of Montreal, Canada)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)

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