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LREC 2012 WorkshopMultimodal Corpora:How should multimodal corpora deal with the situation?22 May 2012Istanbul, Turkeyhttp://www.multimodal-corpora.org/Currently, the creation of a multimodal corpus involves the recording,annotation and analysis of a selection of many possible communicationmodalities such as speech, hand gesture, facial expression, and bodyposture. Simultaneously, an increasing number of research areas aretransgressing from focused single modality research to full-fledgedmultimodality research. Multimodal corpora are becoming a coreresearch asset and they provide an opportunity for interdisciplinaryexchange of ideas, concepts and data. The increasing interest inmultimodal communication and multimodal corpora evidenced by EuropeanNetworks of Excellence and integrated projects such as HUMAINE,SIMILAR, CHIL, AMI, CALLAS and SSPNet; the  success of recentconferences and workshops dedicated to multimodal communication(ICMI-MLMI, IVA, Gesture, PIT, Nordic Symposium on MultimodalCommunication, Embodied Language Processing); and the creation of theJournal of Multimodal User Interfaces also testifies to the growinginterest in this area, and the general need for data on multimodalbehaviours.In 2012, the 8th Workshop on Multimodal Corpora will again becollocated with LREC. This year, LREC has selected Speech andMultimodal Resources as its special topic. This points to thesignificance of the workshop’s general scope, and the fact that themain conference special topic largely covers the broad scope of theworkshop provides us with a unique opportunity to step outside theboundaries and look further into the future.The workshop follows similar events held at LREC 00, 02, 04, 06, 08,10, and ICMI 11. All workshops are documented underwww.multimodal-corpora.org and complemented by a special issue of theJournal of Language Resources and Evaluation which came out in 2008and a state-of-the-art book published by Springer in 2009.=== AimsAs always, we aim for a wide cross-section of the field, withcontributions ranging from collection efforts, coding, validation andanalysis methods, to tools and applications of multimodal corpora.This year, however, we also want to look ahead and emphasize the factthat a growing segment of research takes a view of spoken language assituated action, where linguistic and non-linguistic actions areintertwined with the dynamic conditions given by the situation and theplace in which the actions occur. In spite of this, most corporacapture little more than the linguistic and meta-linguistic actionsper se, and contain little or no information about the situation inwhich they take place. For this reason, we encourage contributionsthat raise the question of what the additions to future multimodalcorpora will be - with possibilities ranging from simple dynamicinformation such as background noise, room temperature, lightconditions and room dimensions to more complex models of roomcontents, external events, scents, or cognitive load modellingincluding physiological data such as breathing or pulse. We hope thatwith your help, the workshop will serve to examine the way language isconceived in corpus creation and to spark a discussion of itsboundaries and how these should be accounted for in annotations and ininterpretation.=== Time scheduleThe workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoonsession. There will be time for collective discussions.=== TopicsThe LREC'2012 workshop on multimodal corpora will feature a specialsession on the collection, annotation and analysis of corpora ofsituated interaction.Other topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:- Multimodal corpus collection activities (e.g. direction-givingdialogues, emotional behaviour, human-avatar interaction, human-robotinteraction, etc.) and descriptions of existing multimodal resources- Relations between modalities in natural (human) interaction and inhuman-computer interaction- Multimodal interaction in specific scenarios, e.g. group interactionin meetings- Coding schemes for the annotation of multimodal corpora- Evaluation and validation of multimodal annotations- Methods, tools, and best practices for the acquisition, creation,management, access, distribution, and use of multimedia and multimodalcorpora- Interoperability between multimodal annotation tools (exchangeformats, conversion tools, standardization)- Collaborative coding- Metadata descriptions of multimodal corpora- Automatic annotation, based e.g. on motion capture or imageprocessing, and the integration with manual annotations- Corpus-based design of multimodal and multimedia systems, inparticular systems that involve human-like modalities either in input(Virtual Reality, motion capture, etc.) and output (virtualcharacters)- Automated multimodal fusion and/or generation (e.g., coordinatedspeech, gaze, gesture, facial expressions)- Machine learning applied to multimodal data- Multimodal dialogue modelling=== Important dates- Deadline for paper submission (complete paper): 24 February 2012- Notification of acceptance: 19 March- Final version of accepted paper: 26 March- Final program and proceedings: 20 April- Workshop: 22 May=== SubmissionsThe workshop will consist primarily of paper presentations anddiscussion/working sessions. Submissions should be 4 pages long, mustbe in English, and follow the submission guidelines athttp://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/Submission should be made at:https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/MMCorpora2012/Demonstrations of multimodal corpora and related tools are encouragedas well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted).=== LREC2012 Map of Language Resources,=== Technologies and EvaluationWhen submitting a paper, from the START page authors will be asked toprovide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that either havebeen used for the work described in the paper or are a new result ofyour research (contribution to building the LREC2012 Map).=== Organizing committee- Jens Edlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden- Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, The Netherlands- Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen, Denmark/University of Malta, Malta