Call for Papers: 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the second edition of the MUWS workshop, which is scheduled to take place in the UK on 22nd October, along with the ACM CIKM 2023 conference. Please find below the call for papers.

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**CALL FOR PAPERS**

MUWS 2022 - The 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal Human Understanding for the Web and Social Media co-located with ACM CIKM 2023

Date: 22nd October, 2023
Submission deadline: August 18th, 2023

More Info: https://muws-workshop.github.io/

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**AIM AND SCOPE**

Multimodal human understanding and analysis is an emerging research area that cuts through several disciplines like Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Speech Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Multimedia. Several multimodal learning techniques have recently shown the benefit of combining multiple modalities in image-text, audio-visual and video representation learning and various downstream multimodal tasks. At the core, these methods focus on modelling the modalities and their complex interactions by using large amounts of data, different loss functions and deep neural network architectures. However, for many Web and Social media applications, there is the need to model the human, including the understanding of human behaviour and perception. For this, it becomes important to consider interdisciplinary approaches, including social sciences, semiotics and psychology. The core is understanding various cross-modal relations, quantifying bias such as social biases, and the applicability of models to real-world problems. Interdisciplinary theories such as semiotics or gestalt psychology can provide additional insights and analysis on perceptual understanding through signs and symbols via multiple modalities. In general, these theories provide a compelling view of multimodality and perception that can further expand computational research and multimedia applications on the Web and Social media.

The theme of the MUWS workshop, multimodal human understanding, includes various interdisciplinary challenges related to social bias analyses, multimodal representation learning, detection of human impressions or sentiment, hate speech, sarcasm in multimodal data, multimodal rhetoric and semantics, and related topics. The MUWS workshop will be an interactive event and include keynotes by relevant experts, poster and demo sessions, research presentations and discussion.

The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

     - Modeling human impressions in the context of the Web and Social Media
     - Cross-modal and semantic relations
     - Incorporating multi-disciplinary theories such as Semiotics or Gestalt-Theory into multimodal analyses
     - Measuring and analyzing biases such as cultural bias, social bias, multilingual bias, and related topics in the context of the Web and Social Media
     - Multimodal human perception understanding
     - Multimodal sentiment/emotion/sarcasm recognition
     - Multimodal hate speech detection
     - Multimodal misinformation detection
     - Multimodal content understanding and analysis
     - Multimodal rhetoric in online media

**SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS**

We welcome contributions with 8-15 pages that address the topics of interest.

Papers should follow the Springer LNCS proceedings style. All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the proceedings style.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the PC. The program committee consists of well-recognized experts (from both academia and industry) in the areas of Semantic Web, the Web, NLP/text processing, knowledge management, visual analytics and Digital Humanities.

Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.

Accepted papers will be given the option to be published as part of a CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Submission Page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=muws23

**IMPORTANT DATES**

Submission deadline: August 18th, 2023
Paper notification: September 15th, 2023
Workshop date: October 22nd, 2023

**ORGANIZING COMMITTEE**

Gullal S. Cheema, L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Sherzod Hakimov, University of Potsdam, Germany
Marc A. Kastner, Kyoto University, Japan
Noa Garcia, Osaka University, Japan

**CONTACT**

All questions about the workshop should be emailed to: muws2023(at sign)easychair.org

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