Appel: SLPAT13, 4th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:57:40 +0100
From: François Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
Message-ID: <51278764.1000109 at imag.fr>
X-url: http://slpat.org/slpat2013


--== SLPAT13 ==--

The 4th annual workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive
Technologies (SLPAT)

21 and 22 August 2013, Grenoble France (satellite event of Interspeech
2013).

==> Submission deadlines: 17 May (research papers) and 31 May (demo
proposals) <==

Full details: http://slpat.org/slpat2013

Contact: slpat2013.workshop at gmail.com

Colleagues,

We invite you to join us in Grenoble for the 4^th annual workshop on
Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies. This 2-day
workshop will combine research in speech and language technology that
assists people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or
developmental disabilities. This year we are introducing a special topic
-- Smart Homes and ambient intelligent technology applied to
augmentative communication. The program committee is now online at
http://www.slpat.org/slpat2013/people.html.

We are also happy to announce that we are now a special group of both
the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International
Speech Communication Association. We look forward to being a part of
both communities.

General topics of SLPAT13 include but are not limited to:

. Automated processing of sign language

. Speech synthesis and speech recognition for physical or cognitive
  impairments

. Speech transformation for improved intelligibility

. Speech and Language Technologies for Assisted Living

. Translation systems; to and from speech, text, symbols and sign
  language

. Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AAC/AT applications

. Text processing for improved comprehension, e.g., sentence
  simplification or text-to-speech

. Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio

. Symbol languages, sign languages, nonverbal communication

. Dialogue systems and natural language generation for assistive
  technologies

. Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to assistive
  technologies

. NLP for cognitive assistance applications

. Presentation of graphical information for people with visual
  impairments

. Speech and NLP applied to typing interface applications

. Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications

. Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces to assistive
  technologies

. Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of
  assistive technology

. Web accessibility; text simplification, summarization, and adapted
  presentation modes such as speech, signs or symbols

. Deployment of speech and NLP tools in the clinic or in the field

. Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes

. Evaluation of systems and components, including methodology

. Anything included in this year's special topic

. Other topics in Augmentative and Alternative Communication

The special topic this year is smart homes and intelligent companions.
Subtopics include:

· Automatic Speech recognition in distant or multi-source environments

· Understanding, modelling or recognition of aged speech

· Speech analysis in the case of elderly with impairments, early
  recognition of speech capability loss

· Multimodal speech recognition (context-aware ASR)

· Multimodal emotion recognition

· Applications of speech technology (ASR, dialogue, synthesis) for
  ambient assisted living

This year, SLPAT will be co-located with the 1^st Workshop on Affective
Social Speech Signals (WASSS, http://wasss-2013.imag.fr/, which takes
place on 22 and 23 August 2013). Participation in and submission to both
workshops will be facilitated by reduced registration fees for
double-registration (rather than registering for both individually),
co-ordination of topics on the overlapping day (22 August) to enable
participation in both, and common lunch and events combining the two
communities.

We look forward to your submissions!

Regards,

Organizing Committee, SLPAT13

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