[Corpora-List] 1st CFP: 1st Workshop on LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN PERVASIVE COMPUTING

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First Call for Papers
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FIRST WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN PERVASIVE COMPUTING 
(http://ltpc2012.blogspot.com)
19 June 2012
organised in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on 
Pervasive Computing <http://pervasiveconference.org/2012/index.php> 
(PERVASIVE 2012) at Newcastle University in the UK, June 18-22.

The main objective of the workshop is to consider the intersection of 
two research domains which have been separated the past years: NLP and 
pervasive computing.
In pervasive and ubiquitous computing scenarios, spoken language is in 
many cases the ideal modality for human beings to interact with a 
"disappearing" computer, i.e. to directly formulate their intentions and 
to receive feedback from the system. However, despite recent advances in 
speech technology, many developers still have objections to employ NLP 
due to concerns of low recognition rates and issues of disambiguation 
etc. These limitations of NLP components are not surprising, considering 
that even human beings can only make sense of spoken language by 
contextual knowledge. Sensing context however is one of the key topics 
of the Pervasive Computing conference series, particularly location 
sensing and activity recognition. We believe that the pervasive 
computing community can make an important contribution to the field of NLP.
Some key challenges, on which the workshop will be based on (but are not 
limited to), include:

  *   Location awareness in speech-enabled systems
  * Adapting speech systems to the user's activity
  * Multimodal interaction in intelligent environments, e.g. speech and
    gesture combined
  * Interacting through speech with smart devices in the Internet of Things
  * Personalizing devices and services through speaker recognition
  * Multilingualism, localization, and translation in pervasive computing

The important dates are the following:
Submission Deadline: *March 2*, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: *April 2*, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: *April 20*, 2012
Workshop date: *June 18,* 2012

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to 
anastasiou at uni-bremen.de

Best regards,
Dimitra Anastasiou (University of Bremen, Germany)
Christoph Stahl (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, 
Bremen)

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