Apologies for cross-posting! Call for Participation - fully hybrid event ** Important dates ** Submission of extended abstracts: 4 Sept 2024 Notification of acceptance: 6 September 2024 Registration deadline: 18 September 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). ** Workshop description ** Today, both linguistic research and language technology focus on utterances and words. Even current AI has become nearly synonymous with text generation. However, words are not used in isolation. When we communicate we relate them to our background knowledge and the intent of the interaction - what is the purpose of what we want to say, who our partner is, what has been said before, our perception of the physical and social world around us. Speech is also not the only way to convey information: we interact in writing, multimodal messages, different kinds of textual formats, eye-gaze, gestures and other aspects of our embodiment. The workshop invites students and researchers in the fields of linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, computer science, natural language processing, language technology, computer vision, cognitive computing, AI, and related areas interested in questions concerning how language is used in different contexts, with support of different modalities, and how such behaviour can be interpreted and generated by computational models. Relevant topics include: Contextual language use both in uni-modal and multi-modal interaction Relation between language, cognition and interaction The role of different modalities in agent interaction Learning, knowledge, and their transfer between interactive scenarios Inference and reasoning Theoretical, experimental and computational models of language, representations, and interaction Annotation, formal and probabilistic representations Task-related model and knowledge representation Application of language technology in different practical tasks and associated ethical questions Intended participants are researchers, university teachers, masters and PhD students from diverse backgrounds that touch upon the questions related to the development and applications of language technology inspired by linguistic research (computational linguistics, natural language processing, and related fields such as computer vision and social robotics, machine learning, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, etc). We foresee a fully hybrid interactive workshop with plenty of time for discussion, complemented with invited talks and presentations of ongoing or completed research. To engage the participation of students and to foster research in the student community we will organise special session on student learning with tutorials on practical research methods and applications. Participants are encouraged to submit extended abstracts for research talks and posters presentations as well as other materials that will be shared with others during the workshop. ** Submission ** Submissions of up to 1 page (excluding references) should follow the ACL formatting template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files), should be in English and contain full contact information of the presenter(s). Authors are also encouraged to submit any other information and materials that they would like to discuss and share with the community about these topics. Please upload your submissions (zipped in a file: name.surname.zip) with your full contact details (names of authors, presenting author, affiliation(s), physical address, email, and personal website) at the following link: https://sigmoid.flov.gu.se/index.php/s/ZnkK9aYyxtSR5Mk ** Mentoring for students ** Student-submitted abstracts will be reviewed by expert reviewers and feedback will be provided by academic mentors both for abstracts and presentations. ** Tutorials ** A series of tutorials will accompany the research presentation sessions. The tutorials are intended to equip masters and PhD students with practical skills in the domain of linguistics, NLP, and AI research. ** Further information ** Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/eutopia-beyond-words/home To be informed about future events and activities of this EUTOPIA Connected Community or become involved in the initiative, please subscribe to our mailing list: https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/eutopia-haicc-partners All the best Eleni Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics and Theory of Science, FLoV University of Gothenburg Room: C540, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33