LINGUIST List 33.794

Tue Mar 01 2022

Calls: Clinical Ling, Comp Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Ireland

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>

Date: 27-Feb-2022
From: Sarah Ebling <eblingcl.uzh.ch>
Subject: 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
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Full Title: 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Short Title: SLPAT

Date: 27-May-2022 - 27-May-2022
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Contact Person: Sarah Ebling
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.slpat.org/slpat2022/

Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 04-Mar-2022

Meeting Description:

Automatic speech and language processing is capable of increasing access to information and communication and, hence, social participation for individuals with disabilities and special educational needs, including people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities, as well as older adults. This has become even more important in the wake of digital transformation, where it is key to ensure that access barriers are not increased and the target groups mentioned put at a larger disadvantage due to, for example, more information and communication being available in written form.
Assistive technologies (AT) allow individuals with disabilities to do things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible for them to do. An important sub-discipline within AT is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), which focuses on developing technologies for individuals facing challenges in written and spoken communication. Speech and language processing can be used in AT/AAC in a wide variety of ways including enhancing the intelligibility of speech and providing communicative assistance for individuals with motor impairments.
Similarly, the concepts of media accessibility and Web accessibility subsume all efforts in improving access to audiovisual media and the Internet for Deaf/deaf and hard-of-hearing, blind and visually impaired, and Deaf/deaf-blind persons, individuals with cognitive impairment, and others.
This workshop will bring together researchers from areas such as natural language processing, speech signal processing, (special) education, rehabilitation sciences, computer science, HCI, communication, psychology, psycholinguistics, computer vision, and computer graphics with domain experts like clinicians, therapists, caretakers, and interpreters, as well as users to share their findings, to discuss present and future challenges, and to explore possibilities for collaboration.

2nd Call for Papers:

NEW submission deadline: March 4, 2022 “anywhere in the world''

We are pleased to announce the second call for papers for the Ninth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT) on May 27, 2022, co-located with ACL 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. Full details on the workshop, including topics of interest, important deadlines, and instructions for authors are here:

http://www.slpat.org/slpat2022

This workshop will bring together researchers from areas such as natural language processing, speech signal processing, (special) education, rehabilitation sciences, computer science, HCI, communication, psychology, psycholinguistics, computer vision, and computer graphics with a common interest in making everyday life more accessible for people with physical, cognitive, sensory, emotional, or developmental disabilities as well as older adults. The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers, domain experts, and users of assistive technology (AT) to share their findings, to discuss present and future challenges, and to explore possibilities for collaboration.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

- Speech synthesis for physical, cognitive, or sensory impairments (talking devices in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), screen readers, audio description/audio subtitling using speech synthesis)
- Sign synthesis (sign language animation, synthetic videos)
- Speech recognition (AAC, respeaking for live subtitling, fully automatic subtitling)
- Sign recognition (AT, natural user interfaces for sign language resources, computer-augmented corpus annotation, sign language assessment)
- Speech and language technologies for daily assisted living and Ambient/Active Assisted Living (AAL)
- Translation to and from speech, text (including subtitles), pictographs, Braille, and sign language
- Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AT
- Personalized voices for AAC based on limited data
- Biofeedback for therapy in neurological disorders
- Text generation for improved comprehension (e.g., sentence and text simplification)
- Silent speech: speech technology based on sensors without audio
- Nonverbal communication
- Multimodal user interfaces and dialogue systems adapted to AT
- Speech and language technologies for cognitive assistance applications
- Presentation of graphical information for people with low vision
- Speech and language technologies applied to typing interface applications
- Brain-computer interfaces for language processing applications
- Assessment of speech and language processing within the context of AT
- Web accessibility, media accessibility
- Deployment of speech and language technologies in the clinic or in the field, such as language analysis for diagnosis or intervention
- Linguistic resources; corpora and annotation schemes
- Automatic evaluation within the context of AT
- Reception studies with target user groups
- Ethical considerations and standards within the context of AT
- Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science efforts within the context of AT

Please contact the conference organizers at slpat2022-organizersgooglegroups.com with any questions.

Important dates
March 4 Deadline for papers
March 26 Notification of acceptance
April 10 Camera-ready papers due
May 27 Workshop

Instructions for authors
Papers must be submitted using the OpenReview paper submission system which you can access here:

https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2022/Workshop/SLPAT

Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to *ACL conferences available here. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences.

Full papers should contain up to 6 pages of content, not including references. Demo papers should be up to 4 pages, not including references.




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