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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>--== SLPAT13 ==--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The 4th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>21 and 22 August 2013, Grenoble France (satellite event of Interspeech 2013).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>==> Submission deadlines: 17 May (research papers) and 31 May (demo proposals) <==<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Full details: <a href="http://slpat.org/slpat2013">http://slpat.org/slpat2013</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Contact: <a href="mailto:slpat2013.workshop@gmail.com">slpat2013.workshop@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><br>We invite you to join us in Grenoble for the 4<sup>th</sup> annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies. This 2-day workshop will combine research in speech and language technology that assists people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. This year we are introducing a special topic -- Smart Homes and ambient intelligent technology applied to augmentative communication. The program committee is now online at <a href="http://www.slpat.org/slpat2013/people.html">http://www.slpat.org/slpat2013/people.html</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We are also happy to announce that we are now a special group of both the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Speech Communication Association. We look forward to being a part of both communities.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>General topics of SLPAT13 include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Automated processing of sign language<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC/AT applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • NLP for cognitive assistance applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of assistive technology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Anything included in this year's special topic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> • Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The special topic this year is smart homes and intelligent companions. Subtopics include:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Automatic Speech recognition in distant or multi-source environments<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Understanding, modelling or recognition of aged speech<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Speech analysis in the case of elderly with impairments, early recognition of speech capability loss<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Multimodal emotion recognition<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Applications of speech technology (ASR, dialogue, synthesis) for ambient assisted living<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This year, SLPAT will be co-located with the 1<sup>st</sup> Workshop on Affective Social Speech Signals (WASSS, <a href="http://wasss-2013.imag.fr/" target="_blank">http://wasss-2013.imag.fr/</a>, which takes place on 22 and 23 August 2013). Participation in and submission to both workshops will be facilitated by reduced registration fees for double-registration (rather than registering for both individually), co-ordination of topics on the overlapping day (22 August) to enable participation in both, and common lunch and events combining the two communities.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We look forward to your submissions!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Organizing Committee, SLPAT13<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Frank Rudzicz, PhD.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'> Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'> Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'> University of Toronto; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'> Founder and Chief Science Officer, Thotra Incorporated<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>>> </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~frank"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~frank</span></a> </span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>(personal)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>>> <a href="http://spoclab.ca/"><span style='color:blue'>http://spoclab.ca</span></a> (lab)</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>