Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT)
Co-located with NAACL HLT 2012
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2012
Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group on
Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT)
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Thursday, June 7th, 2012 | |
| Joint Demo and Poster Session, together with the Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR 2012) | |
| 15:30–17:30 | Coffee, system demonstrations, and posters |
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A free and open-source tool that reads movie subtitles aloud Peter Ljunglöf, Sandra Derbring and Maria Olsson | |
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WinkTalk: a demonstration of a multimodal speech synthesis platform linking facial expressions to expressive synthetic voices Eva Szekely, Zeeshan Ahmed, Joao P. Cabral and Julie Carson-Berndsen | |
| (plus posters of the regular papers from SLPAT and PITR) | |
| 17:30–18:30 | SIG-SLPAT business meeting |
Friday, June 8th, 2012 | |
| 08:30–09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00–09:10 | Opening remarks |
| Regular Paper Session | |
| 09:10–09:35 |
Discourse-Based Modeling for AAC Margaret Mitchell and Richard Sproat |
| 09:35–10:00 |
Applying Prediction Techniques to Phoneme-based AAC Systems Ha Trinh, Annalu Waller, Keith Vertanen, Per Ola Kristensson and Vicki L. Hanson |
| 10:00–10:25 |
Non-Syntactic Word Prediction for AAC Karl Wiegand and Rupal Patel |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| User Panel | |
| 11:00–11:50 | Invited user panel |
| Regular Paper Session | |
| 11:50–12:15 |
Assisting Social Conversation between Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and their Conversational Partners Nancy Green, Curry Guinn and Ronnie Smith |
| 12:15–12:40 |
Communication strategies for a computerized caregiver for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease Frank Rudzicz, Rozanne Wilson, Alex Mihailidis, Elizabeth Rochon and Carol Leonard |
| 12:40–14:00 | Lunch break |
| Regular Paper Session | |
| 14:00–14:25 |
Generating Situated Assisting Utterances to Facilitate Tactile-Map Understanding: A Prototype System Kris Lohmann, Ole Eichhorn and Timo Baumann |
| 14:25–14:50 |
Learning a Vector-Based Model of American Sign Language Inflecting Verbs from Motion-Capture Data Pengfei Lu and Matt Huenerfauth |
| 14:50–15:15 |
A Hybrid System for Spanish Text Simplification Stefan Bott, Horacio Saggion and David Figueroa |
| Closing | |
| 15:15–15:30 | Closing remarks |
| 15:30– | Coffe break, mingling, brainstorming, and mutual admiration |
Contact
Contact us by email: slpat2012.workshop@gmail.com