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Subject: 23.620, Calls: Computational Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Turkey

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Date: 05-Feb-2012
From: Luz Rello [luzrello at gmail.com]
Subject: LREC Workshop: Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility


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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:50:57
From: Luz Rello [luzrello at gmail.com]
Subject: LREC Workshop: Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility

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Full Title: LREC Workshop: Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility 
Short Title: NLP4ITA 

Date: 27-May-2012 - 27-May-2012
Location: Istanbul, Turkey 
Contact Person: Luz Rello
Meeting Email: luz.rello at upf.edu
Web Site: http://www.taln.upf.edu/nlp4ita 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Feb-2012 

Meeting Description:

LREC 2012 workshop on Natural Language Processing for Improving Textual Accessibility (NLP4ITA)
Endorsed by ACL SIG-SLPAT 
May 27, 2012 (Morning Session)
Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.taln.upf.edu/nlp4ita

This workshop aims to bring together researchers focused on tools and resources  for making textual information more accessible to people with special needs including diverse ranges of hearing and sight disabilities, cognitive disabilities, elderly people, low-literacy readers and adults being alphabetized, among others.

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in accessibility and usability issues. This interest is mainly due to the greater importance of the Web and the need to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with diverse disabilities. The role of assistive technologies based on language processing has gained importance as it can be observed from the growing number of efforts (United Nations declarations on universal access to information or WAI guidelines related to content) and research in conferences and workshops (W4A, ICCHP, ASSETS, SPLAT, etc.). 

However, language resources and tools to develop assistive technologies are still scarce.

This workshop will give an opportunity for individuals from different communities to present research findings, discover future challenges, and discuss potential collaboration. 

2nd Call for Papers:

We welcome papers describing tools, resources, models, techniques and evaluation from all areas of natural language processing tailored to accessibility and assistive technologies. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Resources: corpora of inaccessible documents, aligned corpora, gold-standards and annotation schemes
- Evaluation, complexity and readability methodologies and metrics
- Novel modeling and machine learning techniques for improving accessibility
- Natural language generation for improving accessibility
- NLP for Web accessibility
- Text adaptation, elaboration, simplification and summarization
- User studies on systems and components
- NLP tools for accessibility

Submission Information:

We encourage contributions in the form of full papers (6 to 8 pages long). Papers should follow the LREC format which is available at the LREC 2012 website. The submission process will be online using the START conference system at:

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/NLP4ITA

All accepted papers will be presented orally and published in the workshop proceedings.

Important Dates:

February 24, 2012: Paper submission deadline 
March 23, 2012: Notification of acceptance
March 30, 2012: Camera-ready version
May 27, 2012: LREC 2012 Workshops

LRE Map 2012:

The LRE Map 2012, an initiative promoted for monitoring the production, use and evaluation of language resources and tools.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research.

For further information on this new initiative, please refer to:

http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012

Organizers:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Yahoo!)
Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante)
Luz Rello (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
Horacio Saggion (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
Lucia Specia (University of Wolverhampton)

Program Committee:

Sandra Aluisio (University of Sao Paulo) 
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Yahoo!)
Delphine Bernhard (University of Strassbourg) 
Nadjet Bouayad-Agha (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) 
Richard Evans (University of Wolverhampton)
Caroline Gasperin (TouchType Ltd)
Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Jose Manuel Gomez (Universidad de Alicante)	
Simon Harper (University of Manchester) 	
David Kauchak (Middlebury College) 	
Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal)
Elena Lloret (Universidad de Alicante)
Paloma MartÌnez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)	 
Aurelien Max (Paris 11)	
Kathleen F. McCoy (University of Delaware)
Ornella Mich (Foundazione Bruno Kessler)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Paloma Moreda (Universidad de Alicante) 
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton)
Luz Rello (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) 
Horacio Saggion (Universidad Pompeu Fabra ) 
Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen) 
Lucia Specia (University of Wolverhampton)
Juan Manuel Torres Moreno (University of Avignon)
Markel Vigo (University of Manchester)
Leo Wanner (Universidad Pompeu Fabra)
Yeliz Yesilada (Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus Campus) 

Contact Address:

For further information please contact us at:

luz.rello at upf.edu or horacio.saggion at upf.edu





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