We welcome all papers relevant to topics in the intersection of content-based retrieval and natural language processing concerned with pragmatics. Authors are invited to submit regular papers (6 pages), short papers (4 pages), and demo papers (2 pages).
Possible topics are:
Affective computing
Annotation techniques for images/videos/other signal-based modalities
Computational semiotics
Cross-cultural multi-modal recognition techniques
Digital humanities
Distributional semantics
Event modeling, recognition, and understanding
Gesture recognition
Human-machine multimodal interaction
Integration of multimodal features
Machine learning for multimodal interaction
Multimodal analysis of human behavior
Multimodal data modeling, datasets development, sensor fusion
Multimodal deception detection
Ontologies
Sentiment analysis
Structured semantic embeddings
Word and feature embeddings – generation, semantic property discovery, corpus
dependencies, sensitivity analysis, retrieval aids