MP 2018 - Multimedia Pragmatics: A Cross-Fertilization of Content-Based Retrieval and Natural Language Processing

We welcome all papers relevant to topics in the intersection of content-based retrieval and natural language processing concerned with pragmatics. Possible topics are:
Affective computing
Sentiment analysis
Computational semiotics
Cross-cultural multi-modal recognition techniques
Distributional semantics
Event modeling, recognition, and understanding
Gesture recognition
Human-machine multimodal interaction
Integration of multimodal features
Machine learning for multimodal interaction
Multimodal analysis of human behavior
Multimodal datasets development
Multimodal deception detection
Multi-modal sensor fusion
Multi-modality modeling
Structured semantic embeddings
Techniques for description generation of images/videos/other signal-based modalities