<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"R. J. Wolfe" <<a href="mailto:wolfe@CS.DEPAUL.EDU">wolfe@CS.DEPAUL.EDU</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">January 24, 2013 2:31:25 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:access-announcements@ACM.ORG">access-announcements@ACM.ORG</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[access-announcements] Third International SLTAT Symposium Call for Papers</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">ACCESS-ANNOUNCEMENTS <<a href="mailto:access-announcements@ACM.ORG">access-announcements@ACM.ORG</a>><br></span></div><br>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>The Third International Symposium on Sign Language Translation and
Avatar Technology [SLTAT 2013] seeks papers on topics relevant to sign language
translation and avatar technology such as the ones listed below. Authors are
encouraged to submit papers of eight single-spaced pages or less. All
submissions will be peer-reviewed. Selected revised papers will be included in a
dedicated special issue of the <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/10209">International Journal
of Universal Access in the Information Society</a> (<a title="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/10209" href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/10209">http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/10209</a>)
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<h2>Topics</h2>
<ul>SYMBOLIC TRANSLATION
<li>Lexicographic and linguistic approaches
</li><li>Use of corpora to inform translation
</li><li>Modeling of signing space for translation
</li><li>Handling of productive signs, classifier constructions, and constructed
action
</li><li>Incorporation of non-manual features in production
</li><li>Consideration of emotional and prosodic aspects</li></ul>
<ul>AVATAR ANIMATION
<li>Requirements for signing avatar technology
</li><li>Linguistically-informed notations for gestural animation
</li><li>Use of corpora to inform animation
</li><li>Realistic animation of manual and bodily gestures
</li><li>Flexibility in animation of facial gestures and mouthing</li></ul>
<ul>USABILITY
<li>Evaluation results for practical translation systems
</li><li>Evaluation methodologies for signing translation systems
</li><li>Realism and acceptability of signing avatars
</li><li>Efficient content creation and editing tools for signing texts</li></ul>
<h2>Submission</h2><p>Submit papers via <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sltat2013">the conference
Web</a> at <a title="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?timeout=1;conf=sltat2013" href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?timeout=1;conf=sltat2013">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?timeout=1;conf=sltat2013</a>
site no later than July 15th, 2013. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
Notifications will be sent on or near August 19th, 2013. </p><p>For more information, see <a href="http://sltat.cs.depaul.edu">http://sltat.cs.depaul.edu</a> To
be included on the mailing contact <a href="mailto:sltat@cs.depaul.edu">sltat@cs.depaul.edu</a>.
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