<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Apologies for cross-posting.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Please circulate to any potentially interested parties!</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 34px; ">SMIAE 2013</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">We invite you to submit a paper to The 2nd International Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2013): <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae">http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae</a>, to be held on June, 13th/14th at the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (<a href="http://naacl2013.naacl.org">http://naacl2013.naacl.org</a>), on June 9th - 14th, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">The SMIAE 2013 workshop will focus on all issues, applications, and development of various tools in the field of Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments. It will be concerned with all topics which fit within the purview of speech and multimodal communication in environments suitable for the elderly and people with physical or cognitive disabilities. Assistive environments are an application area of the research field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). This research field promotes intelligent assistant systems for a better, healthier, and safer life in the preferred living environments through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Human-computer and human-robot interaction are key technological tools in the area of Assistive Environments, and as such the workshop will particularly aim to draw together speech and multimodal work in these areas. Moreover, both theoretical and applied computational work regarding multimodal interaction in assistive environments will be welcome at this workshop. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Important dates for the workshop are the following:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">01 Mar 2013 Submission due date</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">29 Mar 2013 Notification of acceptance</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">12 Apr 2013 Camera-ready deadline</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">13/14 Jun 2013 Workshop</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Check our website (<a href="http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae">http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae</a>) for further updates on the timeline of the workshop.</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">We encourage the submissions of long and short papers. Accepted long papers will be presented by the authors during the talk session of the workshop, while short papers will be introduced during the poster session. Both kinds of submissions will have the same reviewing process and the accepted papers will be included in the same proceedings. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2013 style guidelines. All submitted papers will go through double-blind reviewing processes (at least three reviewers). Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference will have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Check our website for further information on the submission process.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Suggested Major Areas or Tracks are the following:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Speech-enabled systems in assisted living environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Speech in interaction with gesture in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Multimodality in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Multimodality for navigation of healthcare robots</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Visualization, user interface design and human-robot interaction for assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Talking agents in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Speech in assistive robotics</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Speech for control and navigation</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Speech for localization in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Speech/Text-to Speech software in Web applications designed for the elderly</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Assistive technologies for the elderly and people with disabilities (customizable, self-learning, easy-to-use, reliable, etc.)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Studies and empirical data in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Data management (e-Government, e-Health) in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Data structures and information management in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Telecommunications and mobile devices in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Machine learning and data mining in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Brain-computer interface (BCI) in assistive environments</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Context-sensitive assistive technologies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">* Personalisation in assistive technologies</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">The program committee of SMIAE 2013: </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">John Bateman<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Bremen, Germany </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Francesco Buccafurri<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Reggio Calabria, Italy</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Heriberto Cuayahuitl<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Heriot-Watt University, UK</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Alexandre Denis<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>LORIA, France</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Nina Dethlefs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Heriot-Watt University, UK</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Eleni Efthimiou<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) / R.C. "Athena", Greece</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Evita Fotinea<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) / R.C. "Athena", Greece</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Konstantina Garoufi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Potsdam, Germany</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Kallirroi Georgila<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Southern California, USA</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Bernd Gersdorf<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>DFKI Bremen, Germany </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Stefan Goetze<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Germany</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Susan Kemper<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Kansas, USA</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Florian Kretzschmar<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Deutsche Telekom Laboratories / Technische Universität Berlin</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Sandra Kübler<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Indiana University, USA</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Ilias Maglogiannis<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Central Greece, Greece</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Mikio Nakano<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Honda Research Institute, Japan</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Patrick Olivier<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Newcastle, UK</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Bitte Rydeman<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lund University, Sweden</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Rubén San Segundo Hernández<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Technical University of Madrid, Spain</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Hui Shi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Bremen, Germany</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Kristina Striegnitz<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Union College, USA</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Thora Tenbrink<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Bangor University, UK</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Maria Wolters<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Edinburgh, UK</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">The organising committee of SMIAE 2013:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Desislava Zhekova<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Bremen, Germany</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Dimitra Anastasiou <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Bremen, Germany</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Cui Jian<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Bremen, Germany</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">On behalf of the organising committee,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 13px; ">Desislava Zhekova</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; min-height: 25px; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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