<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Call for Papers (apologies for multiple postings)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Call for Papers: Workshop on Language Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Monday, September 19th 2016 Cergy-Pontoise / Paris</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/epirob2016language/">https://sites.google.com/site/epirob2016language/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">This workshop is part of the 2016 IEEE ICDL-EPIROB conference (ICDL-EPIROB 2016)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); "><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.icdl-epirob.org/">http://www.icdl-epirob.org</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Important Dates</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Aug 19, 2016, Deadline for Abstract submission</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Sep 1, 2016, Notification of acceptance</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Workshop Topic</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Language Learning</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">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.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">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.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">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. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Structure of Workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">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).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">There will be a poster session (at the end and during the first coffee break). </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Speakers:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Tony Belpaeme (Plymouth University, UK): Learning from social robots.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer (INRIA, France): How humans can negotiate interaction protocols in co-construction games: experiments and models. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Katharina J. Rohlfing (Paderborn University, Germany): Language learning across tasks.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Linda B. Smith (Indiana University, USA): Contexts for word learning at scale. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Paul Vogt (Tilburg University, the Netherlands): Language socialization in three radically different cultures. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Chen Yu (Indiana University, USA): Sensory-motor behaviors during child-parent toy play predict word learning. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Emmanuel Dupoux (ENS, Paris, France). How Do Infants Bootstrap into Spoken Language.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Luc Steels (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain). Insight language learning focusing on grammar. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Thierry Poibeau and Isabelle Tellier (CNRS, Paris, France). Language acquisition by robots: How realistic should it be?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Submission and Publication</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">We invite short abstracts (around 200 words) 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.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizers. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Publication: Suitable posters will be invited to submit their work to an upcoming special issue of Frontiers in Neurorobotics. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Submission: One to two pages Abstract. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Until August 19th, 2016</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); "><span style="color: #000000"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>send to <a href="mailto:languagelearningcontact@gmail.com">languagelearningcontact@gmail.com</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Organizers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">===========================================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Chen Yu (Indiana University, USA)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Katharina J. Rohlfing (Paderborn University, Germany)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Malte Schilling (CITEC Bielefeld, Germany)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Michael Spranger (Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc, Japan)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Paul Vogt (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">For more information</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); "><span style="color: #000000"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Contact <a href="mailto:languagelearningcontact@gmail.com">languagelearningcontact@gmail.com</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(71, 135, 255); "><span style="color: #000000"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and see our webpage <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/epirob2016language/">https://sites.google.com/site/epirob2016language/</a></span></div></body></html>