CAFFEi 2008

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

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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

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

Important Dates

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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

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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

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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


 * Co-Organizers
 * General Co-Chairs
 * has general chair::Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
 * has general chair::Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
 * has general chair::Colin Matheson, University of Edinburgh, UK
 * has general chair::Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh, UK

Organizing Committee

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


 * Program Committee Members


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

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