23.1230, Calls: Computational Linguistics/South Korea

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LINGUIST List: Vol-23-1230. Sun Mar 11 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.1230, Calls: Computational Linguistics/South Korea

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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:22:19
From: Dimitra Anastasiou [anastasiou at uni-bremen.de]
Subject: 1st Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments

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Full Title: 1st Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments 
Short Title: SMIAE 

Date: 12-Jul-2012 - 12-Jul-2012
Location: Jeju Island, Korea, South 
Contact Person: Dimitra Anastasiou
Meeting Email: smiae2012 at informatik.uni-bremen.de
Web Site: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae/2012/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Mar-2012 

Meeting Description:

In recent years considerable progress has been made in speech processing and interaction as well as in multimodality. However, the application field of Assistive Environments has only recently become a focus for the speech and multimodality research community. 

This workshop will focus on issues, applications, and development tools in the field of Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE). It will be concerned with all topics which fit within the purview of speech and multimodal communication in environments suitable for the elderly and people with age-related physical or cognitive disabilities. Assistive environments are an application area of the research field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). 

This research field is supported through a European technology and innovation funding programme, which promotes intelligent assistant systems for a better, healthier, and safer life in the preferred living environments through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Human-computer and human-robot interaction are key technological tools in the area of Assistive Environments, and as such the workshop will particularly aim to draw together speech and multimodal work in these areas. Moreover, both theoretical and applied computational work regarding multimodal interaction in assistive environments will be welcome at this workshop. 

Invited Speaker:

Dr. Mikio Nagano 

Final Call for Papers:

We invite you to submit a paper to the 1st Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments (SMIAE 2012): http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/smiae, to be held on July 12 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (http://www.acl2012.org/), on July 8-14, 2012, in Jeju, Republic of Korea. 

The submissions deadline is March 18, 2012 (Check the website on Important Dates for notification to authors and camera ready deadlines). Submissions for long or short papers are both accepted. Both kinds of submissions will have the same reviewing process and the accepted papers will be included in the same proceedings. Submissions must conform to the official ACL 2012 style guidelines available on our website and should be submitted through the START system.

Suggested Major Areas or Tracks are the following:

Speech-enabled systems in assisted living environments
Speech in interaction with gesture and other modalities in assistive environments
Speech and multimodality in assistive robotics
Control of smart devices through speech and multimodal approaches
Speech/Text-to Speech software in Web applications designed for the elderly
Speech and multimodal interaction in e-Government and e-Health in assistive environments
Communication in assistive environments (e.g. Peer-to-Peer)
Talking agents in assistive environments
Multimodal ICT used in elder care

All Submitted papers will go through double-blind reviewing processes (at least three reviewers). Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference will have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. 

Programme Committee:

Jan Alexandersson (DFKI Saarbrücken)
John Bateman (University of Bremen)
Heriberto Cuayáhuitl (DFKI Saarbrücken)
Alexandre Denis (Loria-CNRS)
Nina Dethlefs (University of Bremen)
Eleni Efthimiou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing/ATHENA RC)
Evita Foteinea (Institute for Language and Speech Processing/ATHENA RC)
Konstantina Garoufi (University of Potsdam)
Kalliroi Georgila (University of Southern California)
Stefan Goetze (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology)
Florian Kretzschmar (Telekom Innovation Labs/Technische Universität Berlin)
Susan Kemper (University of Kansas)
Brigitte Krenn (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Oliver Lemon (Heriot-Watt University)
Ilias Maglogiannis (University of Central Greece)
Patrick Oliver (University of Newcastle)
Brian Roark (Oregon Health & Science University)
Rubén San Segundo Hernández (Technical University of Madrid)
Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University)
Hui Shi (University of Bremen)
Kristina Striegnitz (Union College)
Thora Tenbrink (University of Bremen)
Mariët Theune (University of Twente)
Pat Tun (Brandeis University Memory & Cognition Lab)
Maria Wolters (University of Edinburgh)
Wolfgang Zagler (Vienna University of Technology)

For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to:

smiae2012 at informatik.uni-bremen.de

SMIAE 2012 Organising Committee,
Dimitra Anastasiou
Desislava Zhekova
Cui Jian
Robert Ross

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