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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the fifth annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT), to be co-located with ACL 2014 in Baltimore in June 2014. The deadline for submission of papers and demo proposals is 21 March. Full details on the workshop, topics of interest, timeline, and formatting of regular papers can be found here here:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> http://www.slpat.org/slpat2014<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This 2-day workshop will bring together researchers from all areas of speech and language technology with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities. This workshop will provide an opportunity for individuals from both research communities, and the individuals with whom they are working, to assist to share research findings, and to discuss present and future challenges and the potential for collaboration and progress. General topics include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Automated processing of sign language<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive impairments<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Speech transformation for improved intelligibility<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign language<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC/AT applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive technologies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive technologies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • NLP for cognitive assistance applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive technologies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of assistive technology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Anything included in this year's special topic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> • Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2014-workshop@googlegroups.com with any questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Important dates:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>21 March: Paper/demo submissions due<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>11 April: Notification of acceptance<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>28 April: Camera-ready papers due<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>26 - 27 June: SLPAT workshop<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We look forward to seeing you!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The organizing committee of SLPAT 2014,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Dimitra Anastasiou, University of Bremen, Gernany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Cui Jian, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Rupal Patel, Northeastern University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Frank Rudzicz, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and University of Toronto, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Annalu Waller, University of Dundee, Scotland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Desislava Zhekova, University of Munich, Germany</span><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></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>