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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Third Call for Papers - Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) On<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Speech and Language Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Guest Editors: François Portet, Frank Rudzicz, Jan Alexandersson, Heidi Christensen</span></i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Assistive technologies (AT) allow individuals with disabilities to do things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. Many assistive technologies involve providing universal access, such as modifications to televisions or telephones to make them accessible to those with vision or hearing impairments. An important sub-discipline within this community is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), which has its focus on communication technologies for those with impairments that interfere with some aspect of human communication, including spoken or written modalities. Another important sub-discipline is Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) which facilitates independent living; these technologies break down the barriers faced by people with physical or cognitive impairments and support their relatives and caregivers. These technologies are expected to improve quality-of-life of users and promote independence, accessibility, learning, and social connectivity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Speech and natural language processing (NLP) can be used in AT/AAC in a variety of ways including, improving the intelligibility of unintelligible speech, and providing communicative assistance for frail individuals or those with severe motor impairments. The range of applications and technologies in AAL that can rely on speech and NLP technologies is very large, and the number of individuals actively working within these research communities is growing, as evidenced by the successful INTERSPEECH 2013 satellite workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). In particular, one of the greatest challenges in AAL is to design smart spaces (e.g., at home, work, hospital) and intelligent companions that anticipate user needs and enable them to interact with and in their daily environment and provide ways to communicate with others. This technology can benefit each of visually-, physically-, speech- or cognitively- impaired persons. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Topics of interest for submission to this special issue include (but are not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces designed for people with physical or cognitive impairments <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Applications of speech and NLP technology (automatic speech recognition, synthesis, dialogue, natural language generation) for AT applications <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AT applications <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Long-term adaptation of speech/NLP based AT system to user's change <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>User studies, overview of speech/NLP technology for AT: understanding the user's needs and future speech and language based technologies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Understanding, modeling and recognition of aged or disordered speech <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Speech analysis and diagnosis: automatic recognition and detection of speech pathologies and speech capability loss <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Speech-based distress recognition <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Automated processing of symbol languages, sign language and nonverbal communication including translation systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Text and audio processing for improved comprehension and intelligibility, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Evaluation methodology of systems and components in the lab and in the wild. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Resources; corpora and annotation schemes <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>•<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Other topics in AAC, AAL, and AT <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Submission process<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere, although substantial extensions of conference or workshop papers will be considered. as long as they adhere to ACM's minimum standards regarding prior publication (<a href="http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html">http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html</a>). Studies involving experimentations with real target users will be appreciated. All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at <a href="http://www.rit.edu/gccis/taccess/">http://www.rit.edu/gccis/taccess/</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Submissions should follow the journal's suggested writing format (</span><span lang=EN-CA><a href="http://www.gccis.rit.edu/taccess/authors.html"><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://www.gccis.rit.edu/taccess/authors.html</span></a></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>) and should be submitted through Manuscript Central </span><span lang=EN-CA><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taccess"><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taccess</span></a></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> , indicating that the paper is intended for the Special Issue. All papers will be subject to the peer review process and final decisions regarding publication will be based on this review.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Important dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>◦<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Full paper submission: 31<sup>st</sup> March 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>◦<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Response to authors: 30<sup>th</sup> June 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>◦<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Revised submission deadline: 31<sup>st</sup> August 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>◦<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Notification of acceptance: 31<sup>st</sup> October 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-36.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>◦<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Final manuscripts due: 30<sup>th</sup> November 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Frank Rudzicz, PhD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> University of Toronto;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Thotra Incorporated<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>|| Website: <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~frank">http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~frank</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>|| Phone (office) : 416 597 3422 x7971 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>|| Fax : 416 597 3031<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Frank Rudzicz, PhD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Scientist, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> University of Toronto;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Thotra Incorporated<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>|| Website: <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~frank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~frank</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>|| Phone (office) : 416 597 3422 x7971 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>|| Fax : 416 597 3031<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>