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Subject: 33.221, Calls: Clinical Ling, Comp Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 05:28:09
From: Sarah Ebling [ebling at cl.uzh.ch]
Subject: 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Full Title: 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Short Title: SLPAT
Date: 27-May-2022 - 27-May-2022
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Contact Person: Sarah Ebling
Meeting Email: slpat2022-organizers at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://www.slpat.org/slpat2022/
Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2022
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.
Call for Papers:
We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the Ninth Workshop on
Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) on May 27,
2022, co-located with ACL 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. Full details on the
workshop, including topics of interest, important deadlines, and instructions
for authors are here:
http://www.slpat.org/slpat2022
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 a common
interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical,
cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities as well as older
adults. The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers, domain
experts, and users of assistive technology (AT) to share their findings, to
discuss present and future challenges, and to explore possibilities for
collaboration.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Speech synthesis for physical, cognitive, or sensory impairments (talking
devices in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), screen readers,
audio description/audio subtitling using speech synthesis)
Sign synthesis (sign language animation, synthetic videos)
Speech recognition (AAC, respeaking for live subtitling, fully automatic
subtitling)
Sign recognition (AT, natural user interfaces for sign language resources,
computer-augmented corpus annotation, sign language assessment)
Speech and language technologies for daily assisted living and Ambient/Active
Assisted Living (AAL)
Translation to and from speech, text (including subtitles), pictographs,
Braille, and sign language
Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AT
Personalized voices for AAC based on limited data
Biofeedback for therapy in neurological disorders
Text generation for improved comprehension (e.g., sentence and text
simplification)
Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio
Nonverbal communication
Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to AT
Speech and language technologies for cognitive assistance applications
Presentation of graphical information for people with visual impairments
Speech and language technologies applied to typing interface applications
Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications
Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of AT
Web accessibility, media accessibility
Deployment of speech and language technologies in the clinic or in the field,
such as language analysis for diagnosis or intervention
Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes
Automatic evaluation within the context of AT
Reception studies with target user groups
Ethical considerations and standards within the context of AT
Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science efforts within the context of AT
Please contact the conference organizers at
slpat2022-organizers at googlegroups.com with any questions.
Important dates:
February 28, 2022: Deadline for papers
March 26, 2022: Notification of acceptance
April 10, 2022: Camera-ready papers due
May 27, 2022: Workshop
Instructions for authors:
Papers must be submitted using the OpenReview paper submission system which
you can access here:
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2022/Workshop/SLPAT
Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are
available as an Overleaf template
(https://www.overleaf.com/project/5f64f1fb97c4c50001b60549) and also
downloadable directly (Latex and Word;
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Please follow the paper
formatting guidelines general to *ACL conferences available here:
https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html.
Full papers should contain up to 6 pages of content, not including references.
Demo papers should be up to 4 pages, not including references.
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