ANNUAL REPORT

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON MULTIMEDIA LANGUAGE PROCESSING

(SIGMEDIA)

May 23rd 2007

CHAIR: Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg, Germany, andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de)

MAILING ADDRESS: andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de

URL: http://www.sigmedia.org/

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:

Following the tradition of the successful ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal
Dialogue in Mobile Environments (IDS02) in 2002, the Tutorial and Research workshop on
Affective Dialogue Systems (ADS04) in 2004, SIGMEDIA organized another Tutorial and Research
workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies (PIT 2006) in collaboration with the ACL
Special Interest Group SIGDial. The workshop took place at Kloster Irsee, Germany from
June 19-21 2006. The organizing committee consisted of: Elisabeth André, Gregory Baratoff
(Siemens VDO Automative AG, Germany), University of Augsburg, Germany, Laila Dybkjaer,
University of Southern Denmark, Markus Hennecke (Harman/Becker Automotive Systems, Germany),
Wolfgang Minker, Heiko Neumann and Michael Weber all three from University of Ulm, Germany.
The proceedings have been published in the Springer LNCS series.

Furthermore, SIGMEDIA has started with the preparation of another Tutorial and Research
Workshop on PERCEPTION AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES to be held in Kloster Irsee from
June 16 to June 18, 2008. The organizing committee consists of: Elisabeth André, University
of Augsburg, Germany, Laila Dybkjaer, University of Southern Denmark, Wolfgang Minker, Heiko
Neumann and Michael Weber, all three from University of Ulm, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André, andre@informatik.uni-augsburg.de
Lehrstuhl für Multimedia-Konzepte und Anwendungen, Institut für Informatik
Universität Augsburg, Eichleitnerstr. 30, D-86135 Augsburg Germany
Phone: +49 821 598 2341, Fax: +49 821 598 2349
http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de