[Amdnl] CfP WS on Language Learning at ICDL-EPIROB 2016

[Malte Schilling]

Call for Papers (apologies for multiple postings)

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Call for Papers: Workshop on Language Learning
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Monday, September 19th 2016 Cergy-Pontoise / Paris
https://sites.google.com/site/epirob2016language/

This workshop is part of the 2016 IEEE ICDL-EPIROB conference (ICDL-EPIROB 2016)
http://www.icdl-epirob.org

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Important Dates
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Aug 19, 2016, Deadline for Abstract submission
Sep 1, 2016, Notification of acceptance

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Workshop Topic
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Language Learning

Children acquire language by interacting with their caregivers and others in their social environment. When children start to talk, their sensory-motor intelligence (visual perception, body movement, navigation, object manipulation, auditory perception and articulatory control) is already reaching a high level of competence. These competences and growing representations provide a basis for the ongoing development of communication. Importantly, communication is based on representations and skills that have started to develop much earlier and that are shaped already by the first social interactions. These interactions are multimodal in nature and vary across contexts. The contexts vary not only across developmental time and situations within individuals, but also between individuals, socio-economic groups and cultures. Continuously, representations become further enriched in ongoing interactions and across different contexts.

Even though there are various efforts in developmental robotics to model communication, the emergence of symbolic communication is still an unsolved problem. We are still lacking convincing theories and implementations that show how cooperation and interaction knowledge could emerge in long-term experiments with populations of robotic agents.

Importantly, continuously acquiring knowledge in different contexts and being able to further enrich the underlying representations provides a potential powerful mechanism (cross-situational learning) which is already well recognized in learning in children. Still, we need to know more about how children recognize contexts and how their language learning benefits from different language use varying across contexts.  


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Structure of Workshop
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The workshop is a full day workshop with three sessions of three talks each. After the three talk sessions, we will have a panel with all presenters of the workshop to address three questions related to core topics of language learning (referential uncertainty, context, unified architecture).

There will be a poster session (at the end and during the first coffee break). 

Speakers:
	• Tony Belpaeme (Plymouth University, UK): Learning from social robots.
	• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA, France): How humans can negotiate interaction protocols in co-construction games: experiments and models. 
	• Katharina J. Rohlfing (Paderborn University, Germany): Language learning across tasks.
	• Linda B. Smith (Indiana University, USA): Contexts for word learning at scale. 
	• Paul Vogt (Tilburg University, the Netherlands): Language socialization in three radically different cultures. 
	• Chen Yu (Indiana University, USA): Sensory-motor behaviors during child-parent toy play predict word learning. 
	• Emmanuel Dupoux (ENS, Paris, France). How Do Infants Bootstrap into Spoken Language.
	• Luc Steels (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain). Insight language learning focusing on grammar. 
	• Thierry Poibeau and Isabelle Tellier (CNRS, Paris, France). Language acquisition by robots: How realistic should it be?

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Submission and Publication
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We invite short abstracts for the workshop. The accepted abstracts will be presented in a poster session. We want to give researchers a chance to present their (ongoing) work. But we also want to provide a forum for relevant work that has recently been published in journals and other conferences.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizers. 

Publication: Suitable posters will be invited to submit their work to an upcoming special issue of Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 

Submission: half a page up to two pages Abstract. 
	Until August 19th, 2016
	send to languagelearningcontact at gmail.com

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Organizers
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Chen Yu (Indiana University, USA)
Katharina J. Rohlfing (Paderborn University, Germany)
Malte Schilling (CITEC Bielefeld, Germany)
Michael Spranger (Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc, Japan)
Paul Vogt (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

For more information
	Contact languagelearningcontact at gmail.com
	and see our webpage https://sites.google.com/site/epirob2016language/
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