31.483, Calls: Clinical Ling, Cog Sci, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Subject: 31.483, Calls: Clinical Ling, Cog Sci, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:17:41
From: Amalia Todirascu [todiras at unistra.fr]
Subject: LREC Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with Reading Difficulties

 
Full Title: LREC Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with Reading Difficulties (READI) 
Short Title: READI 

Date: 11-May-2020 - 11-May-2020
Location: Marseille, France 
Contact Person: Gala Nuria
Meeting Email: nuria.gala at univ-amu.fr
Web Site: https://readi-lrec2020.wixsite.com/readi-lrec2020 

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

The READI workshop is a satellite event of the LREC 2020 Conference. The
workshop aims at presenting current state-of-the-art techniques and
achievements for text simplification together with existing reading aids and
resources for lifelong learning. The materials are addressed to children
struggling with difficulties in learning to read, to the community of
teachers, speech-language pathologists and parents seeking solutions, but also
to those professionals involved with adults struggling with reading
(illiterates, aphasic readers, low vision readers, etc.).

The workshop will to address the issue from a variety of domains and
languages, including natural language processing, linguistics,
psycholinguistics, psychophysics of vision, and education.

The workshop will act as a stimulus for the discussion of several ongoing
research questions driving current and future research by bringing together
researchers from various research communities involved with tackling
difficulties in reading.

This workshop invites participation from individuals with experience and/or
interest in natural language applications for automatic text adaptation as a
device to improve reading. The general idea is to stimulate discussion of
different ongoing research questions concerning solutions to leverage document
accessibility. By bringing together researchers from various research
communities, we aim to address the issue from different angles.


Call for Papers: 

Topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Theoretical frameworks for text adaptation
- Resources for text adaptation (corpora, lexicons)
- Empirical validation of textual adaptations
- Assessment of text difficulty (readability)
- Complex word identification
- Generation of simple texts from textual data
- Automatic text simplification, including:
   - Lexical simplification
   - Syntactic simplification
   - Discourse simplification
- Evaluation procedures and measures in text adaptation
- Meaning representation in text adaptation
- Educational devices for reading

Paper Submission Instructions: 

Paper Length: submissions are expected to be between a minimum of 4 and
a maximum of 8 pages in length, references included.

Submission Format: please check LREC author’s kit page for more
details. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected. 

Important Dates :
- submission deadline: February 14, 2020
- notification of acceptance: March 13, 2020
- deadline for camera-ready versions: April 3, 2020
- workshop : May 11 am.

More information is available at the workshop's website:
https://readi-lrec2020.wixsite.com/readi-lrec2020/call-for-papers




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