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Call for Papers MMSYM 2024 (http://mmsym.org/)

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International MultiModal communication SYMposium (MMSYM 2024) Frankfurt, Germany; 25.09.-27.09.2024

STRICT ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 08th, 2024 (anywhere on earth)!

The 2nd edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held as the 1st MMSYM in Barcelona (2023), as European Symposia in Leuven (2019), Bielefeld (2017), Copenhagen (2016), Tartu (2014) and Malta (2013), and even earlier as Nordic (2003-2012) and Swedish Symposia (1997-2000). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of visual and acoustic modes of communication. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science.

We welcome innovative contributions in the broader field of multimodal communication. Investigating multimodality extends our knowledge about various ways of communication beyond (spoken) language. This year’s symposium has a particular interest in three main research themes: (1) The gesture-speech integration, in particular the prosody-gesture link, (2) formal, automatic and machine-learning approaches to multimodality, and (3) psycholinguistic approaches in multimodal settings. For MMSYM 2024, we particularly encourage contributions relating to the conference themes.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal data • Articulation-Gesture-coordination • Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction • Formal implementation of multimodality • Intercultural aspects of multimodal behavior • Kinematics of bodily movements • Machine and deep learning techniques applied to multimodal data • Memory effects in multimodal settings • Multimodal aspects of language acquisition and learning (both L1 and L2) • Multimodal communication disorders and communication support • Multimodal corpora • Multimodal dialogue systems • Multimodal health communication • Multimodal human-computer interaction and conversational agents • Multimodal language processing • Prosody-Gesture-Integration • Semantic and pragmatic functions of multimodality • Speech and gestures in human communication

Invited speakers: - Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University) - Judith Holler (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour, Radboud University; MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen) - Julie Hunter (LinaGora Labs, Toulouse)