33.146, Confs: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Ireland

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Subject: 33.146, Confs: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Ireland

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 01:11:55
From: Sarah Ebling [ebling at cl.uzh.ch]
Subject: Ninth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies @ ACL 2022

 
Ninth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies @ ACL 2022 
Short Title: SLPAT 

Date: 27-May-2022 - 27-May-2022 
Location: Dublin, Ireland 
Contact: Sarah Ebling 
Contact Email: slpat2022-organizers at googlegroups.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.slpat.org/slpat2022 

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

Meeting Description: 

Automatic speech and language processing is capable of increasing access to
information and communication and, hence, social participation for individuals
with disabilities and special educational needs, including people with
physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities, as
well as older adults. This has become even more important in the wake of
digital transformation, where it is key to ensure that access barriers are not
increased and the target groups mentioned put at a larger disadvantage due to,
for example, more information and communication being available in written
form.

Assistive technologies (AT) allow individuals with disabilities to do things
that would otherwise be difficult or impossible for them to do. An important
sub-discipline within AT is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC),
which focuses on developing technologies for individuals facing challenges in
written and spoken communication. Speech and language processing can be used
in AT/AAC in a wide variety of ways including enhancing the intelligibility of
speech and providing communicative assistance for individuals with motor
impairments.

Similarly, the concepts of media accessibility and Web accessibility subsume
all efforts in improving access to audiovisual media and the Internet for
Deaf/deaf and hard-of-hearing, blind and visually impaired, and
Deaf/deaf-blind persons, individuals with cognitive impairment, and others.

This workshop will bring together researchers from areas such as natural
language processing, speech signal processing, (special) education,
rehabilitation sciences, computer science, HCI, communication, psychology,
psycholinguistics, computer vision, and computer graphics with domain experts
like clinicians, therapists, caretakers, and interpreters, as well as users to
share their findings, to discuss present and future challenges, and to explore
possibilities for collaboration.
 






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