From owner-cse575-fa07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Mon Nov 12 15:25:32 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id lACKPWR5004436 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:25:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (warmfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.88]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id lACKPShY024034 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:25:28 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 16698 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2007 20:25:23 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 12 Nov 2007 20:25:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 4528 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2007 20:25:20 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 12 Nov 2007 20:25:20 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4519652 for CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:25:20 -0500 Delivered-To: cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 18540 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2007 20:25:19 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 12 Nov 2007 20:25:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 25594 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2007 20:25:18 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 12 Nov 2007 20:25:18 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id lACKPIvU004426 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:25:18 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id lACKPItb004423 for cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:25:18 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200711122025.lACKPItb004423@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:25:18 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. 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Rapaport" Subject: Affective Language in Human and Machine To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4728/Fri Nov 9 14:25:27 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 5796 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Affective Language in Human and Machine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following call for papers (for a conference in Scotland, so I'm not expecting anyone to go!) might be of interest because of its topic, which is on emotional language, a cognitive science topic here to be explored at an AI conference. | Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine | AISB 2008 Convention | 1st-2nd April 2008 (dates to be confirmed) | University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland | | http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~cmellish/aisb08/ | | This symposium aims to combine advances in Affective Computing with | insights in Psychology and Cognition to shed light on the ways in which | affect is communicated by people in their written and spoken language | and might be appropriately communicated between people and machines. | | Topics | | We welcome submissions that describe original contributions or work in | progress on: | | 1. Psychological and Cognitive studies of language with implications | for computer systems recognising or expressing affective state and | 2. Design or Implementation for affective language communication with | computer systems. | | Although we have a particular interest in written language and speech, | we welcome contributions which combine these with other modalities, such | as gesture and facial expression. | | Within this, possible topics are listed below, but this list is not | intended to be exhaustive. | | * Expressing Affective State | o Analysis of language options/choices and of how those | decisions might be made | o Affective Language and Speech Generation | * Recognising Affective State | o Machine Learning approaches using information from text or = | speech | o Sentiment analysis from text | o Models of affective state inference (e.g. using Bayesian | Networks) that take into account information from language | * Influencing Affective State | o How can language communication be used to influence a | person's affective state? | o Planning for the effects of communication on an addressee - | e.g. for motivation, encouragement, discouragement, humour = | and | entertainment | * General Issues in Systems with Affective Language Communication | o Emotions in vocal communication | o Affective communication in Computer Mediated Communication | o Dialogue and interaction | o Lexical issues | o Multimodality, Embodied Conversational Agents | o Corpora and data markup to support empirical study | o Culture and personality dependence | o General architectures and implementation strategies | o Social effects of affective language communication | (persuasion, leadership, team cohesion...) | o Opportunities and risks, ethical issues | o Evaluation | | Paper Format | | Papers should be formatted in the ECAI format. LaTeX and Word templates | can be downloaded from the AISB08 download page. Two kinds of papers | will be considered: | | * Long papers of up to 8 pages in length, describing work that is | relatively complete, and | * Short papers of up to 4 pages in length, describing more | speculative work or work that is in progress | | The two types of paper will be allocated different amounts of time for | presentation at the symposium. These lengths are maximum lengths - | shorter papers will also be considered. | | Note that student authors should append "(student)" to their name on the | first page of the originally submitted paper in order to be considered | for the AISB 2008 "best student paper" award. | | Paper Submission | | Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files sent to | i.v.d.sluis at the address abdn.ac.uk by 12 noon GMT on 10th January | 2008 . Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Decisions | on acceptance and rejection will be communicated to the first named | authors of papers by 15th February 2008 . | | Authors of papers will be asked to sign a copyright declaration before | their papers can finally be accepted. This declaration is not exclusive | however: it gives AISB the right to publish the paper, but does not | prevent the author from also publishing it in other venues after. | | All accepted papers will also have a poster space in the main hall at | the conference on the same day as their paper presentation, to give a | chance for questions and interaction between different symposia. | | ORGANISATION | | Symposium Chair | | Chris Mellish, University of Aberdeen | | Symposium Co-Chairs | | Fiorella de Rosis, University of Bari | Isabella Poggi, Roma Tre University | Ielka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen | | PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: | | Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany | Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, UK | Anton Batliner, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany | Emanuela Magno Caldognetto, Padova, Italy | Valentina D'Urso, Padova, Italy | Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS, France | Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK | Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, Netherlands | Emiel Krahmer, University of Tilburg, Netherlands | Linda Moxey, University of Glasgow, UK | Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc, USA | Jon Oberlander University of Edinburgh, UK | Helen Pain, University of Edinburgh, UK | Helmut Prendinger, Nat Inst of Informatics, Japan | Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK | Oliviero Stock, ITC IRST, Italy | Carlo Strapparava, ITC IRST, Italy | Lyn Walker, University of Sheffield, UK