<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">********************************************************************<br><br> Last Call for Papers<br> NAACL 2013 workshop on:<br><br><br> Natural Language Processing for <br> Improving Textual Accessibility <br> (2nd NLP4ITA)<br><br><br><br> <a href="http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/nlp4ita_2013">http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/nlp4ita_2013</a><br><br>*** DEADLINE EXTENDED DUE TO NUMEROUS REQUESTS ***<br><div><br>********************************************************************<br><br>=== Introduction ===<br><br>Following the success of the 1st NLP4ITA in Istambul (LREC 2012) we are <br>running the 2nd edition of NLP4ITA at NAACL 2013. The workshop aims to bring together researchers focused <br>on tools and resources for making textual information more accessible to people <br>with special needs including diverse ranges of hearing and sight disabilities, <br>cognitive disabilities, elderly people, low-literacy readers and adults being <br>alphabetized, among others.<br><br><br>=== Motivation and Topics of Interest ===<br><br>In recent years there has been an increasing interest in accessibility and <br>usability issues. This interest is mainly due to the greater importance<br>of the Web and the need to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people <br>with diverse disabilities. The role of assistive technologies based on language <br>processing has gained importance as it can be observed from the growing number <br>of efforts (United Nations declarations on universal access to information or <br>WAI guidelines related to content) and research in conferences and workshops <br>(W4A, ICCHP, ASSETS, SPLAT, NLP4ITA, etc.). <br><br>However, language resources and tools to develop assistive technologies <br>are still scarce.<br><br>This workshop will give an opportunity for individuals from different communities to present research <br>findings, discover future challenges, and discuss potential collaboration. <br><br>We welcome papers describing tools, resources, models, techniques and evaluation <br>from all areas of natural language processing tailored to accessibility and <br>assistive technologies. These include, but are not limited to, the following:<br><br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Resources: corpora of inaccessible documents, aligned corpora, gold-standards and annotation schemes.<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Evaluation, complexity and readability methodologies and metrics.<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Novel modeling and machine learning techniques for improving accessibility.<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Natural language generation for improving accessibility.<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>NLP for Web accessibility.<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Text adaptation, elaboration, simplification and summarization.<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>User studies.<br>-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>NLP tools for accessibility<br><br><br>=== Submission Information ===<br><br>We encourage contributions in the form of full papers (up to 8 pages long + 2 pages references). <br>Papers should follow the NAACL format which is available at the NAACL 2013 Web Site (<a href="http://naacl2013.naacl.org/CFP.aspx">http://naacl2013.naacl.org/CFP.aspx</a>).<br>The submission process will be online using the START conference system.<br><br>All accepted papers will be presented orally and published in the workshop proceedings.<div><br><br><br>=== Important dates ===<br><br>Paper submission deadline: *15th March 2013* <br>Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2013<br>Camera-ready version: 12th April 2013<br>NAACL 2013 Workshops: 13th or 14th June (TO BE ANNOUNCED)<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>=== Invited speaker ===</div><div><br></div><div>Kathleen F. McCoy <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(University of Delaware)<br><br></div><div><br>=== Organizers ===<br><br>Ricardo Baeza-Yates <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Yahoo!)<br>Luz Rello <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Pompeu Fabra)<br>Horacio Saggion <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Pompeu Fabra)<br><br><br></div><div>=== Program Committee ===<br><br>Sandra Aluisio <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(University of Sao Paulo)<br>Ricardo Baeza-Yates <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Yahoo! Research)<br>Delphine Bernhard <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(University of Strassbourg) <br>Nadjet Bouayad-Agha <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Pompeu Fabra) <br>Giorgio Brajnik<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad de Udine)<br>Richard Evans <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(University of Wolverhampton)<br>Jose Manuel Gomez<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad de Alicante)<br>Raquel Hervás <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>David Kauchak <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Middlebury College) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Guy Lapalme <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(University of Montreal)<br>Elena Lloret<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad de Alicante)<br>Paloma Martínez <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <br>Aurelien Max <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Paris 11)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Ornella Mich <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Foundazione Bruno Kessler)<br>Paloma Moreda<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad de Alicante) <br>Constantin Orasan <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(University of Wolverhampton)<br>Luz Rello <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Pompeu Fabra) <br>Horacio Saggion <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Pompeu Fabra ) <br>J.M. Torres Moreno <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(University of Avignon)<br>Markel Vigo <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(University of Manchester)<br>Leo Wanner <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Universidad Pompeu Fabra)<br>Yeliz Yesilada <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus) <br><br><br><br><br>=== Contact Address ===<br><br>For further information please contact us at:<br><a href="mailto:luz.rello@upf.edu">luz.rello@upf.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:horacio.saggion@upf.edu">horacio.saggion@upf.edu</a><br></div></div></body></html>