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Call for Papers: ETHI-CA² 2016: ETHics In Corpus Collection, Annotation
& Application
at LREC 2016, Portorož (Slovenia), 24 May 2016
Dates:
▪ Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission: 15 February 2016
▪ Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2016
▪ Final version of accepted paper: 15 March 2016
▪ Workshop: 24 May 2016.
Author Information
1500-2000 words extended abstracts are needed at first for submission.
The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the
LREC main conference by ELRA. For these, the instructions of LREC need
to be followed. The submission will be via the START conference system -
a link will follow shortly.
A journal special issue in a related journal is planned for inviting the
best papers, but remaining open to further submissions.
Further, a best paper award will be given.
Submissions of extended abstracts need to be made at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/ETHI-CA/.
Workshop Description:
ETHI-CA²’s focus spans ethical aspects around the entire processing
pipeline from speech and language as well as multimodal resource
collection and annotation to system development and application.
In the recent time of ever-more collection “in the wild” of individual
and personal multimodal and –sensorial “Big Data”, crowd-sourced
annotation by large groups of individuals with often unknown reliability
and high subjectivity, and “deep” and autonomous learning with limited
transparency of what is being learnt, and how applications such as in
health or robotics depending on such data may behave, ethics have become
more crucial than ever in the field of language and multimodal resources
making it a key concern of the LREC community. There is, however, a
surprising if not shocking white spot in the landscape of workshops,
special session, or journal special issues in this field, which ETHI-CA²
aims to fill in.
The goal is thus to connect individuals ranging across LREC’s fields of
interest s uch as human-machine and –robot and computer-mediated
human-human interaction and communication, affective, behavioural, and
social computing whose work touches on crucial ethical issues (e.g.,
privacy, tracability, explainability, evaluation, responsibility, etc.).
According systems increasingly interact with and exploit data of humans
of all ranges (e.g., children, adults, vulnerable populations) including
non-verbal and verbal data occurring in a variety of real-life contexts
(e.g., at home, the hospital, on the phone, in the car, classroom, or
public transportation) and act as assistive and partially instructive
technologies, companions, and/or commercial or even decision making
systems. Obviously, an immense responsibility lies at the different ends
from data recording, labelling, and storage to its processing and usage.
Motivation:
Emerging interactive systems have changed the way we connect with our
machines, modifying how we socialize, our reasoning capabilities, and
our behavior. These areas inspire critical questions centering on the
ethics, the goals, and the deployment of innovative products that can
change our lives and society. - Many current systems operate on private
user data, including identifiable information, or data that provides
insight into an individual’s life routine. The workshop will provide
discussions of user consent and the notion of informed data collection.
- Cloud-based storage systems have grown in popularity as the scope of
user-content and user-generated content has greatly increased in size.
The workshop will provide discussions on best practices for data
annotation and storage and evolving views on data ownership. - Systems
have become increasingly capable of mimicking human behavior through
research in affective computing. These systems have pr ovided
demonstrated utility, for interactions with vulnerable populations
(e.g., the elderly, children with autism). The workshop will provide
discussions on considerations for vulnerable populations. - The common
mantra for assistive technology is, “augmenting human care, rather than
replacing human care.” It is critical that the community anticipates
this shift and understands the implication of machine-in-the-loop
diagnostic and assessment strategies.
Topics of Interest:
Topics include, but are not limited to:
▪ Ethics in recording of private content
▪ Ethics in multimodal, sensorial data collection
▪ Ethics in annotation (crowd-sourced) of private data
▪ Data storage/sharing/anonymization
▪ Transparency in Machine Learning
▪ Ethics in Affective, Behavioural, and Social Computing
▪ Responsibility in Educational Software and Serious Games
▪ Human-machine interaction for vulnerable populations
▪ Computer-mediated Human-Human Communication
▪ Responsibility in Decision-Support based on Data
▪ The role of assistive technology in health care
Summary of the Call:
The ETHI-CA² 2016 workshop is crucially needed first edition in a
planned for longer series. The goal of the workshop is to connect
individuals ranging across LREC’s fields of interest such as
human-machine and –robot and computer-mediated human-human interaction
and communication, affective, behavioural, and social computing whose
work touches on crucial ethical issues (e.g., privacy, tracability,
explainability, evaluation, responsibility, etc.). These areas inspire
critical questions centering on the ethics, the goals, and the
deployment of innovative products that can change our lives and
consequently, society. It is critical that our notion of ethical
principles evolves with the design of technology. As humans put
increasing trust in systems, we must understand how best to protect
privacy, explain what information the systems record, the implications
of these recordings, what a system can learn about a user, what a third
party could learn by gaining access to the data, changes in human
behavior resulting from the presence of the system, and many other
factors. It is important that technologists and ethicists maintain a
conversation over the development and deployment lifecycles of the
technology. The ambition of this workshop is to collect the main ethics,
goals and societal impact questions of our community including experts
in sociology, psychology, neuroscience or philosophy. At LREC 2016, the
workshop shall encourage a broad range of its community’s researchers to
reflect about and exchange on ethical issues inherent in their research,
providing an environment in which ethics co-evolve with technology.
Organizing Committee:
▪ Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne University, France,
[email protected]
▪ Björn Schuller, Imperial College London, UK/University of Passau,
Germany, [email protected]
▪ Emily Mower Provost, University of Michigan, USA, [email protected]
▪ Peter Robinson, University Cambridge, UK, [email protected]
▪ Joseph Mariani, IMMI/LIMSI-CNRS/University Paris-Saclay, France,
[email protected]
Contact: Laurence Devillers
Program Committee:
Gilles Adda, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Jean-Yves Antoine, University of Tours, France
Nick Campbell, TCD, Ireland
Raja Chatila, ISIR-CNRS, France
Alain Couillault, GFII, France
Anna Esposito, UNINA, Italy
Karen Fort, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, UPMC, France
Alexei Grinbaum, CEA, France
Hatice Gunes, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Dirk Heylen, University of Twente, Netherlands
François Hirsch, INSERM, France
Christophe Leroux, CEA, France
Catherine Tessier, ONERA, France
Isabelle Trancoso, INESC, Portugal
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