[game_edu] CfP: 1st Workshop on Games and Nautral Language Processing (GAMNLP-12)

[Jose P. Zagal]

Hi,

Please forward and distribute widely. I'm also happy to take questions 
on the workshop!

thanks,

Jose

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1st Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-12)
23 October 2012, Kanazawa, Japan
atJapTAL 2012 <http://lang.cs.tut.ac.jp/japtal2012/>(the 8th 
International Conference on Natural Language Processing)


      Objectives

This workshop aims at promoting and exploring the possibilities for 
research and practical applications involving Natural Language 
Processing (NLP) and Games. The main objective is to provide a forum for 
researchers and practitioners to discuss and share ideas regarding how 
the NLP research community can contribute to games research and vice 
versa. For example, the use of NLP techniques can help the formal study 
and understanding of games as well as the design and development of 
novel and engaging game experiences. On the other hand, games provide 
interesting challenges to NLP in the linguistic characteristics of the 
domain and its user culture in addition to being a medium which 
facilitates interactive dialogues. The workshop welcomes the 
participation of both academics and industry practitioners interested in 
the use of NLP in games or vice versa.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  * Chatterbots, Conversational Characters in games
  * Interactive Narrative Systems
  * Discourse planning and management
  * Automatic dialogue generation
  * Speech recognition in games and in-game chat systems
  * Language-based real-time interaction with virtual characters
  * Analysis of large-scale game-related corpora (e.g. game reviews)
  * Real-time sentiment analysis of player discourse/chat in games
  * Recommender systems for games
  * Automatic construction of game ontologies


      Important Dates

  * Deadline for submissions: 3 September 2012
  * Notification of acceptance: 17 September 2012
  * Camera-ready versions: 1 October 2012
  * Workshop date: 23 October 2012


      Submissions Instructions

There are three types of submissions: long papers, short papers and 
demonstration notes.

(1) Long papers

Long papers should describe mature research with substantial and 
rigorously evaluated results.  Long papers may consist of up to twelve 
(12) pages including references.

(2) Short papers

Short papers typically describe on-going research and present 
preliminary results.  Short papers may consist of up to seven (7) pages 
including references. Please note that short papers may be presented 
either orally or as a poster; the selection of the format will be based 
on the Program Committee's recommendation.

(3) Demonstration notes

We encourgage the participation of system demonstrations.  A 
demonstration should be accompanied by a note which briefly describes 
the system and includes images.  Demonstration notes may consist of up 
to four (4) pages.

Submissions should be prepared using the same format as the main 
conference.  Please see the conference website for details 
(http://lang.cs.tut.ac.jp/japtal2012/submissions/), in particular under 
"MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION".

All submissions should be made online through EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gamnlp12.

Note that all accepted papers will be included in the workshop 
proceedings, but not in the main conference's proceedings.  Workshop 
proceedings will be made available on CD's.


      Organizers

Workshop Co-Chairs:

  * Noriko Tomuro, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
  * Jose Zagal, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

Program Committee:

TBA

For any questions, contact the workshop co-chairs (tomuro at cs.depaul.edu 
<mailto:tomuro at cs.depaul.edu>;jzagal at cdm.depaul.edu 
<mailto:jzagal at cdm.depaul.edu>).
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