33.540, Calls: English; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics/France

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Subject: 33.540, Calls: English; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics/France

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:19:37
From: David Alfter [david.alfter at uclouvain.be]
Subject: Tools and Resources for People with Reading Difficulties

 Full Title: Tools and Resources for People with Reading Difficulties 
Short Title: READI 

Date: 24-Jun-2022 - 24-Jun-2022
Location: Marseille, France 
Contact Person: Núria Gala
Meeting Email: nuria.gala at univ-amu.fr
Web Site: https://cental.uclouvain.be/readi2022/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 10-Apr-2022 

Meeting Description:

Workshop READI at LREC 2022:
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 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.


Call for Papers:

This workshop invites participation from individuals with experience and/or interest in text adaptation or in other technologies to improve reading or to facilitate readability. The general idea is to stimulate discussion on 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.

Topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Technologies and resources for enhancing the training and reading capacities
- Educational devices for reading
- 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

Instructions:
- Submissions are expected to be between a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 pages in length, references included.
- All submissions must be formatted following the LREC style guidelines https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2022/authors-kit/ (Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX templates are available). ​
- Submissions should be made via the START conference system at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/READI/.
- Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.
- The submissions will be anonymous (blind reviews).

Important Dates (Please note that all deadline indications are at GMT +1.):
- Submission deadline: April 10th, 2022
- Notification of acceptance: May 2nd, 2022
- Deadline for camera-ready versions: May 23rd, 2022
- Workshop: June 24th, 2022

For more information, please see the website.



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