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First Call for Papers<br>
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FIRST WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN PERVASIVE COMPUTING
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ltpc2012.blogspot.com">http://ltpc2012.blogspot.com</a>)<br>
19 June 2012<br>
organised in conjunction with the <a
href="http://pervasiveconference.org/2012/index.php">10th
International Conference on Pervasive Computing</a> (PERVASIVE
2012) at Newcastle University in the UK, June 18-22.<br>
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The main objective of the workshop is to consider the intersection
of two research domains which have been separated the past years:
NLP and pervasive computing.<br>
In pervasive and ubiquitous computing scenarios, spoken language is
in many cases the ideal modality for human beings to interact with a
“disappearing” computer, i.e. to directly formulate their intentions
and to receive feedback from the system. However, despite recent
advances in speech technology, many developers still have objections
to employ NLP due to concerns of low recognition rates and issues of
disambiguation etc. These limitations of NLP components are not
surprising, considering that even human beings can only make sense
of spoken language by contextual knowledge. Sensing context however
is one of the key topics of the Pervasive Computing conference
series, particularly location sensing and activity recognition. We
believe that the pervasive computing community can make an important
contribution to the field of NLP.<br>
Some key challenges, on which the workshop will be based on (but are
not limited to), include:<br>
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<li> Location awareness in speech-enabled systems</li>
<li> Adapting speech systems to the user’s activity</li>
<li>Multimodal interaction in intelligent environments, e.g.
speech and gesture combined</li>
<li>Interacting through speech with smart devices in the Internet
of Things</li>
<li>Personalizing devices and services through speaker recognition</li>
<li>Multilingualism, localization, and translation in pervasive
computing</li>
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The important dates are the following:<br>
Submission Deadline: <b>March 2</b>, 2012
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Notification of Acceptance: <b>April 2</b>, 2012<br>
Camera-ready deadline: <b>April 20</b>, 2012
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Workshop date: <b>June 18,</b> 2012<br>
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For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email
to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:anastasiou@uni-bremen.de">anastasiou@uni-bremen.de</a><br>
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Best regards,<br>
Dimitra Anastasiou (University of Bremen, Germany)<br>
Christoph Stahl (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence,
Bremen)
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