Second Call for Papers

https://onion2020.github.io/

We invite paper submissions for the first workshop on People in Language, Vision, and the Mind, which discusses how people, their bodies and faces as well as mental states are described in text. We are interested in contributions from diverse areas including language generation, language analysis, cognitive computing, affective computing.

Detailed Workshop goals

The workshop will provide a forum to present and discuss current research focusing on multimodal resources as well as computational and cognitive models aiming to describe people in terms of their bodies and faces, including their affective state as it is reflected physically. Such models might either generate textual descriptions of people, generate images corresponding to people’s descriptions, or in general exploit multimodal representations for different purposes and applications.  Knowledge of the way human bodies and faces are perceived, understood and described by humans is key to the creation of such resources and models, therefore the workshop also invites contributions where the human body and face are studied from a cognitive, neurocognitive or multimodal communication perspective. 

• Datasets of facial images, as well as body postures, gestures and their descriptions
• Methods for the creation and annotation of multimodal resources dedicated to the description of people
• Methods for the validation of  multimodal resources for descriptions of people
• Experimental studies of facial expression understanding by humans
• Models or algorithms for automatic facial description generation
• Emotion recognition by humans
• Multimodal automatic emotion recognition from images and text
• Subjectivity in face perception
• Communicative, relational and intentional aspects of head pose and eye-gaze
• Collection and annotation methods for facial descriptions
• Coding schemes for the annotation of body posture and facial expression
• Understanding and description of the human face and body in different contexts, including commercial applications, art, forensics, etc. 
• Modelling of the human body, face and facial expressions for embodied conversational agents
• Generation of full-body images and/or facial images from textual descriptions
• Ethical and data protection issues related to the collection and/or automatic description of images of real people
• Any form of bias in models which seek to make sense of human physical attributes in language and vision.

Important dates

Workshop: May 16, 2020 (afternoon)  

Submission guidelines

Short paper submissions may consist of up to 4 pages of content, while long papers may have up to 8 pages of content. References do not count towards these page limits.

All submissions must follow the LREC 2020 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the following address: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/

Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online submission system here:

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/ONION2020/

The authors of accepted papers will be required to submit a camera-ready version to be included in the final proceedings. Authors of accepted papers will be notified after the notification of acceptance with further details.