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<div>On 11 Nov 2013, at 17:34, Sandra.Williams wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">First Call for Papers:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">The 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR2014)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">27th April 2014</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial">in conjunction with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial"><a href="http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/pitr2014/">http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/pitr2014/</a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Submission deadline: 23rd January 2014</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Many NLP systems generate or reformulate human languages but how readable is the output? What makes language easy, difficult, or, indeed, a pleasure to read for different
types of readers? How can existing text be manipulated to improve information access?<span style="">
</span>How does the style of writing, formal vs informal, informational vs. entertaining, affect readability, user comprehension, and/or appreciation of text? The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in these questions amongst computational linguists
as attention turns to more sophisticated techniques for textual presentation and to address the widely differing needs of end users.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">PITR is a cross-disciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in fields concerned with the readability, accessibility, and quality of text. We are keen to widen the
scope to include researchers who might not normally attend a computational linguistics conference, e.g., psycholinguists, sociolinguists, assistive technology and educational researchers. We would welcome papers on:</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Reformulation of existing text (text-to-text systems)
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Generation of readable language from data (data-to-text systems)</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Generation of text in specific styles and registers for readability</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Evaluation of language simplification strategies</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Evaluation of the readability and quality of computer-generated text</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Evaluation of the readability and quality of machine translation output</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Prediction of aspects of text style related to readability</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Prediction of the readability of documents</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Readability issues in specialist texts such as questionnaires, exam questions, safety instructions, etc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Novel evaluation strategies for assessing text readability</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Novel readability metrics</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Techniques for simplifying lexis</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Techniques for simplifying syntax</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Techniques for simplifying discourse properties (making text more transparent, etc.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Techniques for manipulating textual layout to improve accessibility</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Techniques for making descriptions of numerical quantities more accessible</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Techniques for making technical terminology more accessible</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Techniques for making descriptions of logical statements more accessible</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Techniques for explaining complex ideas through accessible text</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Systems aimed at adults with poor literacy
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Systems aimed at children learning to read</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Systems aimed at 2nd language learners</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Systems aimed at people with language deficits (aphasia, deafness, neurodegeneration, etc.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Systems aimed at non-experts accessing technical material</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Models of text quality for competent language users</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Models to predict reader interest and engagement</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">* Models of text style with application to readability</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">SUBMISSIONS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Papers should prepared in EACL format (see under 'Submission Format' at
<a href="http://eacl2014.org/call-for-papers">http://eacl2014.org/call-for-papers</a>). They should not exceed 8 pages in length plus up to 2 additional pages for references. These are maximum lengths; shorter papers are also acceptable.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Papers should be anonymised for blind reviewing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Please submit your paper via the online START Conference Manager system:
<a href="https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/PITR/">https://www.softconf.com/eacl2014/PITR/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Some authors will be invited to give oral presentations. All accepted authors will be expected to present a poster. Last year, the poster session was very lively, giving
poster-only authors and oral-presentation authors ample opportunities to discuss their research.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Submission deadline: 23rd January 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Notification: 20th February 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Camera-ready: 3rd March 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Workshop: 27th April 2014</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Stefan Bott, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Kevyn Collins-Thompson, University of Michigan, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Siobhan Devlin, University of Sunderland, UK
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Micha Elsner, Ohio State University, USA<span style="">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Richard Evans, University of Wolverhampton, UK
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Oliver Ferschke (instead of Iryna)</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Thomas Francois, University of Louvain, Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Caroline Gasperin, SwiftKey, UK
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Albert Gatt, University of Malta, Malta</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Raquel Hervas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Veronique Hoste, University College Ghent, Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Matt Huenerfauth, The City University of New York (CUNY), USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">David Kauchak, Middlebury College, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Annie Louis, University of Edinburgh, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Hitoshi Nishikawa, NTT, Japan</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Matthew Shardlow, Uni of Manchester, UK
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield, UK
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Ivelina Stoyanova, BAS, Bulgaria</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Irina Temnikova, University of Wolverhampton, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Sowmya Vajjala, Uni Tuebingen, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Ielka van der Sluis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Jennifer Williams, MIT, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Kristian Woodsend, University of Edinburgh, UK</span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">ORGANISERS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Sandra Williams, The Open University, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial">Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA</span></p>
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<div>Dr Sandra Williams</div>
<div>Department of Computing and Communications</div>
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<div><a href="mailto:s.h.williams@open.ac.uk">s.h.williams@open.ac.uk</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www9.open.ac.uk/mct/main/staff/sandra.williams">http://www9.open.ac.uk/mct/main/staff/sandra.williams</a></div>
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