**** Workshop on Affective Social Speech Signals ****

                             WASSS’2013

                                Grenoble

                              22-23 august 2013

                                  1^st call for papers

                       wasss-2013.imag.fr

a satellite of Interspeech 2013 http://www.interspeech2013.org/

The WASSSS workshop will take place at the University of Grenoble, approximately 1.5 hour by train, bus or car from Lyon. It will be held over 2 days: the Thursday and Friday before Interspeech.).

This workshop will provide a meeting place for the different communities interested into why, how and when speech is used by humans for signalling socio-affective functions. It will be dedicated to building interdisciplinary research and cross-fertilization between the different scientific communities All areas related to human communication are concerned: language and speech computing, robotics or virtual agents, as well as linguistics, phonetics, pragmatics, didactics, sociology, psychology, neuropsychology, ethology, biology, etc. The organisation of affect is complex – from low-level emotion automatic or reflexive processing to higher cognitive levels , culture-dependent, language-organized, controlled processing. Speech can signal some very rich social and emotional cues, reflecting personality, social role, the cultural/language specificities in all human interactions and more broadly in human communication.

This workshop will be especially the place where “social emotions” will be debated from different points of view, with different meanings depending on the domain.

--- The intended contributions can be related, but not limited to:

- social emotions, social affect: theories or models, how and why signalled

- social affect signals (e.g. expressions of automatic emotions and more social emotions, attitudes, intentions, mental states, cognitive processing, feelings...): corpus, description, annotation, etc

- the cultural contrast of affective social speech

- psychological/neuropsychological models and cues for social affect processing

- social and anthropological models for analysing affective processing and

emotions expressions

- social affect in Human Machine Interaction and dialog

- multimodality of the social signals in face to face speech interactions

- the place of social speech affect in L2 learning

- the challenge of social signals for robots and embodied virtual agents

- social affect in speech technologies: speech synthesis, recognition or translation

- speech social affect within personality, social rule and culture

- lexicon of social affect in speech

- sentiment analysis/opinion mining in speech

- etc

******* Important dates:

paper submission: 22 april 2103

acceptation notification: 17 june 2013

final submission: 22 july 2013

early registration: 27 june 2013

late registration: 20 july 2013

---- WASSS overlaps 1 day with SLPAT at the same place: it will be possible to register WASSS together with SLPAT http://www.slpat.org/slpat2013/ (decreased fees)

--- submission
Papers should be a maximum of 4 pages Interspeech format (see submission guidelines on Interspeech site

Every paper will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the scientific committee (extension of the program committee). The workshop contributions be followed by a special publication of selected papers.

Program Commitee

Aubergé V, LIG CNRS, Grenoble, France

Campbell N, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Grandjean D., Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland

Mac K D, MICA, Hanoi, Vietnam

De Meo A, L2 Linguistics and Audio-Visual Center, Italy

de Moraes JA, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sagisaka Y, Waseda University, Japan

Wichman A, School of Literature, Language and International Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Pettorino M., L’Orientale University, Napoli, Italy

Rilliard A, LIMSI, Paris, France

Shochi T, Université Bordeaux, France

Tutin, A, Lidilem, Grenoble, France

Organization Committee

Aubergé V, LIG, Grenoble, France, chair

Adam Carole, LIG, Grenoble, France

Rossato Solange, LIG, Grenoble, France Sasa Y., LIG, Grenoble, France

Vacher M, LIG, Grenoble, France

Vaufreydaz Dominique, INRIA/LIG, Grenoble, France

Antunes L., UFOP, Minais Gerais, Brazil

Rousset I., Lidilem, Grenoble France

Zampa V., Lidilem, Grenoble, France

Henrich N, Gipsa Lab, Grenoble, France

Lu Y, Gipsa Lab, Grenoble, France

Vallée N., Gipsa Lab, Grenoble, France

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