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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear Cogsci Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We invite submissions to MINT: Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue, a workshop that brings together researchers from computational linguistics, NLP, computer vision, HCI, robotics, and cognitive science working on multimodal face-to-face communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Workshop website: </span><a href="https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October 24–29, 2026 (exact date within this period to be decided).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We welcome work on topics including:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>computational models that integrate verbal and non-verbal cues such as speech, text, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and body pose;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>cognitive and linguistic insights about face-to-face communication that can inform AI systems;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>multimodal datasets with synchronized speech, video, and motion data;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>evaluation methods for multimodal interaction;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1'><span lang=EN-US>applications and tools for embodied conversational agents, social robots, annotation, and behavioural analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Papers should be prepared using the official ACL formatting guidelines and ACL style files.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>MINT welcomes both archival and non-archival papers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>Archival papers: Submissions must be anonymous and report original, unpublished research to appear in the workshop proceedings. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><span lang=EN-US>Non-archival papers: Submissions reporting previously published work, preliminary research, or demos to be presented at the workshop and not published in the MINT proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Papers may be submitted as long papers (up to 8 pages plus references) or short papers (up to 4 pages plus references).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Non-archival submissions do not need to be anonymous.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We allow cross-submissions to other venues. However, to be included in the proceedings, authors of accepted papers must withdraw them from any other venue where they remain under consideration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>MINT will accept submissions through two channels:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>Direct submission: The dedicated OpenReview portal for this is available at </span><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT</span></a><span lang=EN-US>. Archival papers submitted through this channel will be reviewed by the MINT programme committee. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Authors may submit through ARR and commit their paper together with the ARR reviews to MINT later at </span><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT\_ARR\_Commitment" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT\_ARR\_Commitment</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Important dates (11:59 pm AOE)<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><span lang=EN-US>ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><span lang=EN-US>Direct paper submission deadline: July 8, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><span lang=EN-US>Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 24, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'>Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready paper due: September 14, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Accepted contributions will be required to be presented at the MINT workshop as posters or talks. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The MINT workshop is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: </span><a href="https://www.mpi.nl/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>https://www.mpi.nl/</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>For questions, please contact: </span><a href="mailto:mint.organizers@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>mint.organizers@gmail.com</span></a><span lang=EN-US>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On behalf of the workshop organisers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'><span lang=EN-US>Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>Diego Frassinelli (LMU Munich)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>Esam Ghaleb (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>Bulat Khaertdinov (Maastricht University)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University) <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo5'>Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>