<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; font-size: 20px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="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; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-size: medium; ">Please circulate to any potentially interested parties!</div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 18px; ">*** Deadline extended to March 20th, 2013 *** </div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div></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: 20px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 20px; ">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: 20px; ">---------------------------------------</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: 14px; "><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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">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; font-size: 14px; "><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 class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; ">We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions. In order to submit a paper to SMIAE 2013, please use the link:</span><span style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); "> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0066f5"><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naacl2013/SMIAE2013" style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: initial; ">https://www.softconf.com/naacl2013/SMIAE2013</a><span style="font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; float: none; "></span></font></font></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: 14px; "><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: 14px; ">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: 14px; "><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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 14px; ">20 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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">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: 14px; "><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: 14px; ">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><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: 14px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 14px; ">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: 14px; "><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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; ">* 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: 14px; "><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: 14px; "><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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">---------------------------------------</div><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="line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><table border="0" style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16.799999237060547px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; font-size: 17px; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">John Bateman</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">University of Bremen, Germany</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Francesco Buccafurri</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">University of Reggio Calabria, Italy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Heriberto Cuayahuitl</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Heriot-Watt University, UK</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Alexandre Denis</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">LORIA, France</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Nina Dethlefs</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Heriot-Watt University, UK</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Eleni Efthimiou</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) / R.C. "Athena", Greece</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Evita Fotinea</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) / R.C. "Athena", Greece</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Konstantina Garoufi</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">University of Potsdam, Germany</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Kallirroi Georgila</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">University of Southern California, USA</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Bernd Gersdorf</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">DFKI Bremen, Germany</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Stefan Goetze</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Germany</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Susan Kemper</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">University of Kansas, USA</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Florian Kretzschmar</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Deutsche Telekom Laboratories / Technische Universität Berlin</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Sandra Kübler</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Indiana University, USA</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Ilias Maglogiannis</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">University of Central Greece, Greece</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Mikio Nakano</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Honda Research Institute, Japan</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Bitte Rydeman</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Lund University, Sweden</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Rubén San Segundo Hernández</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Technical University of Madrid, Spain</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Niels Schütte</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Hui Shi</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">University of Bremen, Germany</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Kristina Striegnitz</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Union College, USA</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Thora Tenbrink</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Bangor University, UK</font></td></tr><tr><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">Maria Wolters</font></td><td><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#000000">University</font> of Edinburgh, UK</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div></span><div style="font-size: 14px; "><br></div></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: 14px; "><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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">---------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal Monaco; font-size: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">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: 14px; "><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: 14px; ">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: 14px; ">Desislava Zhekova</div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">_______________________________________________<br>UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: <a href="http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora</a><br>Corpora mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a><br><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a></font></body></html>