28.5311, Calls: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics/Japan

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Subject: 28.5311, Calls: Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics/Japan

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:26:57
From: Dimitrios Kokkinakis [dimitrios.kokkinakis at svenska.gu.se]
Subject: Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric impairments

 
Full Title: Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric impairments 
Short Title: RaPID 2018 @ LREC 

Date: 08-May-2018 - 08-May-2018
Location: Miyazaki, Japan 
Contact Person: Dimitrios Kokkinakis
Meeting Email: dimitrios.kokkinakis at svenska.gu.se
Web Site: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/swe/rapid-2018 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

RaPID-2018 will be an interdisciplinary forum for researchers to share
information, findings, and experience on the creation and processing of data
acquired or produced by people with various forms of mental, cognitive,
neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments, such as aphasia, dementia,
autism, Parkinsons or schizophrenia. Particularly, the workshop focus on the
creation, annotation, description, processing and analysis of linguistic,
paralinguistic and extra-linguistic resources (e.g., spontaneous spoken
language; audio-recorded samples and transcripts; eye tracking measurements;
wearable and in-situ sensor data etc.) from individuals at various stages of
these impairments and with varying degrees of severity in order to identify,
extract, process, correlate, evaluate and disseminate various linguistic
phenotypes and measurements and thus aid the diagnosis, monitor the
progression or predict individuals at risk.


Call for Papers:

There is a growing interest among healthcare professionals and clinicians to
apply non-invasive, time and cost-effective techniques as a complement to the
battery of medical and clinical examinations currently undertaken for the
early diagnosis or monitoring of brain and mental disorders. Previous research
in this field, based on linguistic-oriented analysis of text and speech
produced by such a population and compared to healthy adults, has shown
promising results. Initially, work was based on written data (i.e. most
commonly collected during formal assessment, and recently also datasets
acquired form of blog posts, tweets, and social media in general) but there is
a rapidly growing body of research based on spoken samples; and other
modalities such as eye tracking; wearable and in-situ sensors data; text
production measurements and digital pen strokes.

RaPID-2018 will be an interdisciplinary forum for researchers to share
information, findings, and experience on the creation and processing of data
acquired or produced by people with various forms of mental, cognitive,
neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments, such as aphasia, dementia,
autism, Parkinsons or schizophrenia. Particularly, the workshop focus on the
creation, annotation, description, processing and analysis of linguistic,
paralinguistic and extra-linguistic resources (e.g., spontaneous spoken
language; audio-recorded samples and transcripts; eye tracking measurements;
wearable and in-situ sensor data etc.) from individuals at various stages of
these impairments and with varying degrees of severity in order to identify,
extract, process, correlate, evaluate and disseminate various linguistic
phenotypes and measurements and thus aid the diagnosis, monitor the
progression or predict individuals at risk.

A central aim is to facilitate the study of the relationships among various
levels of linguistic, paralinguistic and extra-linguistic observations (e.g.,
acoustic measures; phonological, syntactic and semantic features; eye tracking
measurements; sensors, signs and multimodal signals). Submission of papers are
invited in all of the aforementioned areas, particularly emphasizing
multidisciplinary aspects of processing such data and the interplay between
clinical/nursing/medical sciences, language technology, computational
linguistics, natural language processing (NLP) and computer science. The
workshop will act as a stimulus for the discussion of several ongoing research
questions driving current and future research by bringing together researchers
from various research communities.

Papers are invited in all of the areas outlined in the Topics of interest,
particularly emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of processing such data and
the interplay between clinical/nursing/medical sciences, language technology,
computational linguistics, NLP, and computer science. We welcome also papers
discussing problems derived from the design of relevant data samples and
populations, but also the exploitation of results and outcomes as well as
legal and ethical questions on how to deal with such data and make it
available. Furthermore, the workshop solicits papers describing original
research. Papers may preferably describe substantial and completed work, but
may also focus on a contribution, a negative result, an interesting
application nugget, a software package, a small, focused contribution or work
in progress. The workshop will act as a stimulus for the discussion of several
ongoing research questions driving current and future research and challenges
by bringing together researchers from various research communities.

For topic of interest, submission details and more information see the
workshop's web site
(https://spraakbanken.gu.se/swe/forskning-alz-rj/submission-details).




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