Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine

Topics<br>
We welcome submissions that describe original contributions or work in progress on:
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1. Psychological and Cognitive studies of language with implications for computer systems recognising or expressing affective state and<br>
2. Design or Implementation for affective language communication with computer systems. <br>

Although we have a particular interest in written language and speech, we welcome contributions which combine these with other modalities, such as gesture and facial expression.<br>

Within this, possible topics are listed below, but this list is not intended to be exhaustive.
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* Expressing Affective State<br>
o Analysis of language options/choices and of how those decisions might be made<br>
o Affective Language and Speech Generation <br>
* Recognising Affective State<br>
o Machine Learning approaches using information from text or speech<br>
o Sentiment analysis from text<br>
o Models of affective state inference (e.g. using Bayesian Networks) that take into account information from language <br>
* Influencing Affective State<br>
o How can language communication be used to influence a person's affective state?<br>
o Planning for the effects of communication on an addressee - e.g. for motivation, encouragement, discouragement, humour and entertainment <br>
* General Issues in Systems with Affective Language Communication<br>
o Emotions in vocal communication<br>
o Affective communication in Computer Mediated Communication<br>
o Dialogue and interaction<br>
o Lexical issues<br>
o Multimodality, Embodied Conversational Agents<br>
o Corpora and data markup to support empirical study<br>
o Culture and personality dependence<br>
o General architectures and implementation strategies<br>
o Social effects of affective language communication (persuasion, leadership, team cohesion...)
o Opportunities and risks, ethical issues<br>
o Evaluation <br>

Paper Format<br>
Papers should be formatted in the ECAI format. LaTeX and Word templates can be downloaded from the AISB08 download page. Two kinds of papers will be considered:<br>

* Long papers of up to 8 pages in length, describing work that is relatively complete, and<br>
* Short papers of up to 4 pages in length, describing more speculative work or work that is in progress <br>

The two types of paper will be allocated different amounts of time for presentation at the symposium. These lengths are maximum lengths - shorter papers will also be considered.<br>

Note that student authors should append "(student)" to their name on the first page of the originally submitted paper in order to be considered for the AISB 2008 "best student paper" award.<br>
Paper Submission<br>
Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files sent to i.v.d.sluis at the address abdn.ac.uk by 12 noon GMT on 10th January 2008 . Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Decisions on acceptance and rejection will be communicated to the first named authors of papers by 15th February 2008 .<br>

Authors of papers will be asked to sign a copyright declaration before their papers can finally be accepted. This declaration is not exclusive however: it gives AISB the right to publish the paper, but does not prevent the author from also publishing it in other venues after.<br>

All accepted papers will also have a poster space in the main hall at the conference on the same day as their paper presentation, to give a chance for questions and interaction between different symposia.