THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN MULTIMEDIA PRAGMATICS

San Jose, California

Call For Paper

In the early days of our community when the idea of intelligently managing visual information was becoming quite exciting, text was downplayed, and audio was largely ignored as being in the purview of speech processing, an already established field of study. We strongly believe that now is the time to continue to formalize the more general field of study of what we call sensor-based data management, and to bring the multimedia community and the natural language processing closer together.

Most multimedia objects are spatio-temporal simulacrums of the real world. This supports our view that the next grand challenge for our community will be understanding and formally modeling the flow of life around us, over many modalities and scales. As technology advances, the nature of these simulacrums will evolve as well, becoming more detailed and revealing to us more information concerning the nature of reality.

Pragmatics studies context and how it affects meaning. Context is sometimes culturally, socially, and historically based. For example, pragmatics would encompass the speaker’s intent, body language, and penchant for sarcasm, as well as other signs, usually culturally based, such as the speaker’s type of clothing, which could influence a statement’s meaning. Generic signal/sensor-based retrieval should also use syntactical, semantic, and pragmatics-based approaches. If we are to understand and model the flow of life around us, this will be a necessity.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topic areas:

• Affective computing
• Annotation techniques for images/videos/other signal-based modalities
• Computational semiotics
• Cross-cultural multi-modal recognition techniques
• Digital humanities
• Distributional semantics
• Event modeling, recognition, and understanding
• Gesture recognition
• Human-machine multimodal interaction
• Integration of multimodal features
• Machine learning for multimodal interaction
• Multimodal analysis of human behavior
• Multimodal data modeling, datasets development, sensor fusion
• Multimodal deception detection
• Ontologies
• Sentiment analysis
• Structured semantic embeddings
• Word and feature embeddings – generation, semantic property discovery, corpus
• Dependencies, sensitivity analysis, retrieval aids

Important Dates

Submission Deadline	:	January 25, 2019
Notification acceptance:	:	February 01, 2019
Camera-ready submission	:	February 08, 2019



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Posted 03-12-2018 on 19:47:56 AEDT

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