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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