MMPrag'20: Third International Workshop on Multimedia Pragmatics Shenzhen Kylin Villa Shenzhen, China, April 9-11, 2020 |
Conference website | https://mipr.sigappfr.org/20/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmprag20 |
Submission deadline | January 22, 2020 |
The Third International Workshop on Multimedia Pragmatics (MMPrag'20) continues to provide a venue for the discussion of topics related to context and other issues of joint concern to the multimedia and natural language processing communities. Whether theoretical, tool-based, or applied, these conversations will encourage the continuing cross-fertilization of ideas between these two research communities.
Submission Guidelines
To be included in the IEEE Xplore Library, accepted papers must be registered and presented. The Call for Papers can be found at https://easychair.org/cfp/MMPrag20. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Regular papers (6 pages max)
- Short papers (4 pages max)
- Demo papers (4 pages max)
Important Dates
Here are some important dates:
- January 22, 2020 -- Submissions due
- January 31, 2020 -- Acceptance notification
- February 7, 2019 -- Camera-ready papers and author registrations due
- April 9-11, 2020 (To be determined) -- Workshop date
List of Topics
Cross-cultural contributions are encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Affective computing
- Annotation techniques for natural language/images/videos/other sensor-based modalities
- Applications to ecology, environmental science, health sciences, social sciences
- Computational semiotics
- Cross-cultural multi-modal modeling, recognition, and understanding techniques
- Digital humanities
- Distributional semantics
- Education and tutoring systems
- Event modeling, recognition, and understanding
- Gesture modeling, recognition, and understanding
- Human-machine multi-modal interaction
- Integration of multimodal features
- Machine learning for multimodal interaction
- Multimodal analysis of human behavior
- Multimodal data modeling, dataset development, sensor fusion
- Multimodal deception detection
- Ontologies
- Semantic-based modeling and retrieval
- Sentiment analysis
- Storytelling
- Structured semantic embeddings
- Word, sentence, and feature embeddings - generation, semantic property discovery, corpus dependencies, sensitivity analysis, retrieval aids
Committees
Program Committee
- Mohamed Abouelenien, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
- Rajeev Agrawal, ITL, ERDC, USA
- Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland, USA
- Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA
- Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, USA
- David Hogg, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Debanjan Mahata, Bloomberg, USA
- David Martins, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
- Fabricio Olivetti de Franca, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
- James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
- Terry Ruas, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
- Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Amit Sheth, Wright State University, USA
- Peter Stanchev, Kettering University, USA
- Joe Tekli, American University of Lebanon, Lebanon
Organizing committee
- Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, Pau, France
- William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
- Adam Pease, Infosys, USA
Invited Speakers
- To be announced
Venue
The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE Third International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'20), the latter to be held from April 9-11 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The venue is the Shenzhen Kylin Villa Hotel at 4599 Qinyuan Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen. The hotel's telephone number is +86 755-26618888 and its website is http://www.kylinvilla.cn/indexen.aspx
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Richard Chbeir (richard.chbeir@univ-pau.fr), William Grosky (wgrosky@umich.edu), or Adam Pease (apease@articulatesoftware.com).