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(Co-Sponsored by ACL's SIGMEDIA)

WHEN: August 15, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98)

WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

In the last few years, multimedia systems have become available which integrate text, graphics, sound (speech and non-speech audio), as well as animation. There are many different communities working on such systems (e.g., hypermedia, human-machine interaction, information retrieval, scientific visualization, content extraction, dialog tracking), each with distinct concerns and goals, and often the communities are not aware of each other's research and methods.

This workshop aims to bring together these communities to examine the questions of the visual presentation of diverse content through multiple media. The major goal is to explore common intermedia representation languages which are expressive enough to cover diverse modalities yet suitably appropriate for the individual media.

With increasing amounts of data, information, and knowledge available to the user, the effective use of visualization is increasingly important in applications. Examples include:

• visualization of data in scientific literature, including support for interactive information retrieval;
• business and finance data visualization (data profiling);
• automated or assisted map, graph, diagram, or image construction from text or data;
• event, process, and knowledge editing and visualization tools;
• and knowledge navigation over databases, texts, and search results.
  

The specific issues addressed by the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Definition of Content: different disciplines and applications have distinct perspectives on what content is, e.g., of text, video, graphics, collections of interactions or correspondences.
• Knowledge Representation: i.e., what it is, how to represent it, reason about it, and present it.
• Taxonomies of content representations, tasks, and visualization artifacts.
• Representations for content and how these relate to and/or facilitate visualization tasks.
• Selection and Organization of Content: Deciding what to present and how to organize the presentation of selected content and why (i.e., effect).
• Deciding how to coordinate the presentation of content through several media:
• The relationship of cognitive task to visualization content and style (e.g., visualization structure, properties, form, coherency, interpretability, and accuracy of displays).
• Deciding how to accept and integrate input from several media.
• Medium-specific encoding of content.
• Presentation and interaction techniques of generated results.
• Tailoring visualizations to specific user and usergroup characteristics, knowledge, and interests.
• Content visualization evaluation metrics and methods.
  

The organizers will produce a workshop report and, providing there is sufficient interest and adequate results reported, will consider a special edited journal issue and/or state of the art collection.

Authors are encouraged to submit their workshop papers simultaneously for public discussion to the Area Intelligence User Interfaces of the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI). The ETAI is a new kind of electronic journal using open and posteriori reviewing. Formally, the rules work as follows. In the ETAI, you first have the article discussed for three months, then you have a chance to revise it based on the feedback, and then you decide whether to submit it for refereeing in the ETAI or in some other journal. For more information, see: http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/.

PROGRAM CHAIRS:

• James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
• Mark T. Maybury, MITRE
  

SPONSORS:

• SIGMEDIA (ACL's special interest group on Multimedia Language Processing)
  
• ACL/COLING
  

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Elisabeth Andre , DFKI Saarbruecken
• Branimir Boguraev, IBM Watson Research
• Steve Feiner , Columbia University
• Michael Johnston , Oregon Graduate Institute
• Mark Maybury , MITRE Corporation
• James Pustejovsky , Brandeis University
• Steve Roth , Carnegie Mellon University
• Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI Saarbruecken
• Kent Wittenburg , GTE Laboratories

Requirements for submission

Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above. Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. Please use US or A4 letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. LaTeX users are encouraged to use the ACL style file for LateX. MS-Word users should use the ACL style file for MS-Word.

Submissions can be made either as hardcopies or electronically in ASCII, PostScript, HTML, or MS-Word format. They should be sent to:

James Pustejovsky
CVIR'98
Computer Science Department
258 Volen
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
voice: 1-781-736-2709
fax: 1-781-736-2741
email: [email protected]

More detailed information on the workshop can be found at:

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp/CVIR/

Timetable

Deadline for electronic submissions: April 20, 1998

Deadline for hardcopy submissions: April 22 (arrival date)

Notification of acceptance: May 10, 1998

Final manuscripts due: June 15, 1998

Organizer Information:

MARK T. MAYBURY, Director
Advanced Information Systems Center
The MITRE Corporation (MS K308)
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
Tel: 1-78-271-7230
Fax: 1-781-271-2780
[email protected]

JAMES PUSTEJOVSKY, Associate Professor
Computer Science Department and
Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
voice: 1-781-736-2709
fax: 1-781-736-2741
[email protected]