Joint TALK/AMI Workshop
Joint TALK/AMI Workshop This workshop is being organized by the TALK and AMI IST research projects with support from the W3C. It is intended to determine further work in the area of representations of multimodal dialogue context.
The objective of the workshop is to get a clearer understanding of interoperability needs in the area of dialogue context formats and dialogue annotations. The meeting will serve TALK and AMI to develop a common understanding of the challenges on interoperability. Beyond that, the workshop should also gather input from a larger audience than TALK and AMI. Experts in the area of dialogue formats worldwide including participants of the Multimodal Working Group and participants of the Groups in the W3C Voice Activity, and participants in ISO TC37 SC4, are encouraged to present and share their views and requirements.
The workshop aims to capture a common understanding of the issues for further work on interoperability in the area of dialogue context representations and dialogue annotation.
In recent years there have been several proposals for representations of multimodal dialogue context at various levels and for various purposes, for example dialogue "Information State" , task-based, and form-based representations, "multidimensional" annotations, annotations for user emotions, speech acts, gestures, and visual and acoustic features of the context. Current projects such as TALK and AMI have their own particular views on the most important aspects of multimodal dialogue context, and how to represent them. For future progress in the area, it is highly desirable that researchers collect dialogue data in a shared and extensible format, thus building useful corpora for e.g. statistical learning techniques, user and system simulation, and evaluation.
The goals of this workshop are as follows.
The workshop will include discussions in the following areas:
Participants are encouraged to report on their practical experience with dialogue context representation and annotation.
We expect several groups to contribute to the workshop.
The results of the workshop, including submitted position statements, position papers, presentations and discussion notes, will be made public on the Web.
The workshop is an open event. Everybody interested in contributing to interoperability in dialogue representations and annotations is welcome. However, space is limited to 40 participants. In order that a wide range of views can be heard, it may be necessary to limit attendance, including no more than two participants representing any one organization.
All participants must register to attend the workshop as described below, and submit a statement of their interest in the workshop which will be made public.
In addition, those who would like to be considered by the program committee to make a presentation must also submit a position paper as described below.
The cost of the workshop will be covered by the host organization. There will be no participation fee.
If you wish to attend the workshop you must:
Interest statements are required from every participant, including any invited experts and W3C staff. They consist of a brief (maximum 500 word) text description of the contribution you could make to the workshop, including the topics you wish to see discussed.
If you intend to submit a position paper, include an abstract as part of your interest statement.
Deadline for interest statements: 18 November 2005.
Preference will be given in filling the available places based on (1) no more that two participants per organization, (2) relevance of interest statement, and (3) being an employee of a W3C Member organization or of an organziation participating in AMI or TALK, in this order.
Confirmation of obtaining a place at the workshop will be sent on 2 December 2005. After that, any remaining places may be filled at the discretion of the program committee.
Position papers will be reviewed by the program committee as a basis for selecting invited presentations to inform and initiate discussion at the workshop. Even if not selected for presentation, they provide valuable insights for participants, and will be made available on the workshop website.
Papers on practical experience of device-independent authoring techniques will be particularly welcome.
A position paper is usually short, around 2 to 5 pages, and describes a point of view related to one of the topics listed above. It should include a summary of what would be presented if invited to do so by the program committee. They must be in plain text, standard HTML, or XHTML format (with any images as PNG, GIF, or JPG). Position papers should be submitted to dialogue-standards@inf.ed.ac.uk
Deadline for position papers: 18 November 2005.
Invitations to give a presentation will be sent on 25 November.
All submitted position papers and presentations slides (including screenshots of any demonstration given during a presentation) must be available for public distribution and will be published on the public website of the workshop. Submitting a position paper will be taken to imply acceptance of these terms for publication.
Oliver Lemon (University of Edinburgh)
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Dave Raggett (W3C)
HCRC, 2 Buccleuch Place, University of Edinburgh
Local arrangements page (University of Edinburgh, maps, food, etc.)
The one-day workshop will begin at 11am and end at 5.30pm. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
An agenda showing the planned presentations and discussion sessions will be published approximately one week before the workshop.
HCRC, 2 Buccleuch Place, University of Edinburgh
Further details are available on the local arrangements page, giving details of the location, transport and accommodation.