From:  David B. Bracewell   
      
    C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S   
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   ICIC 2006 Special Session on   
   Language Processing for Affective Computing   
      
   August 16th - 19th, 2006   
   Kunming, China   
      
   Affective Computing is a relatively new field that deals with emotions   
   and stimuli in human-computer interaction. Currently research is being   
   done in gesture recognition, facial expressions, speech, and language.   
   No matter the source, computer responses that are based on the current   
   emotional state of the human user will improve the human-computer   
   experience significantly. Over the past 10 years there has been a   
   growth in the field with numerous workshops and conferences being held.   
   Labs across the world including MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and The   
   University of Tokyo are actively doing research in Affective Computing.   
   Various nations around the world, like the US, China and Japan, have   
   also seen the importance of affective computing and are heavily   
   financing its research.   
      
   Language, whether it be speech or writing has always been one of the   
   most significant vehicles for exhibiting emotion. Emotion is so   
   entwined in language that often times without knowing the emotion,   
   language cannot be fully understood. As the opportunities for   
   human-computer interaction increases so will the need for Affective   
   Computing. Understanding the underlying emotion in speech or text and   
   being able to generate speech or text that has emotion will be a   
   necessity for comfortable interaction. In areas such as telephony,   
   robotics, and online customer support the need for algorithms to   
   understand and dimulate human emotion will enable comfortable and   
   awarding interactions. This special dession will look at research being   
   done in language processing for Affective Computing. It will look   
   specifically at research being done in speech and text processing for   
   emotion recognition, corpus and tool creation, as well as other areas.   
   The list below shows some the desired topics.   
   -Emotion recognition in text and speech   
   -Emotion creation in text and speech   
   -Creation of tools and corpora for Affective Computing   
   -Applications of language processing based Affective Computing   
      
   Accepted papers will be published along with the ICIC 2006 Proceedings   
   in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS)/Lecture Notes in   
   Artificial Intelligence(LNAI)  by Springer.   
      
   Deadline: March 1st, 2006   
   ICIC 2006 web site: http://www.ic-ic.org/2006/   
   ICIC 2006 Submisson page: http://www.ic-ic.org/icg/index.asp   
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