7th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
- San Francisco, United States, 13 September, 2016
- Satellite workshop of Interspeech 2016
- Organized by the ACL/ISCA Special Interest Group on
Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT)
Program
This year's invited speaker is Professor Helen Meng from CUHK, Hong Kong.
Oral presentation sessions will consist of four 15-minute talks, with five minutes each for questions.
| Time | Tuesday 13 September |
|---|---|
| 08:15 | Registration |
| 08:45 | Welcome - Frank Rudzicz |
| 09:00 | Invited keynote, Prof. Helen Meng |
| 10:00 | Refreshments |
| 10:30 | Oral Presentation Session 1
- Tag Thunder: Web Page Skimming in Non Visual Environment Using Concurrent Speech - Navigating the Spoken Wikipedia - Selecting Exemplar Recordings of American Sign Language Non-Manual Expressions for Animation Synthesis Based on Manual Sign Timing - Effect of Speech Recognition Errors on Text Understandability for People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Oral Presentation Session 2
- Towards graceful turn management in human-agent interaction for people with cognitive impairments - Simple and robust audio-based detection of biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease - Discriminating the Infant Cry Sounds Due to Pain vs. Discomfort Towards Assisted Clinical Diagnosis - Improvement of Continuous Dysarthric Speech Quality |
| 15:00 | Poster 2-Minute Madness (with slides) |
| 15:30 | Poster Session (with refreshments)
- PAoS Markers: Trajectory Analysis of Selective Phonological Posteriors for Assessment of Progressive Apraxia of Speech - The Effect of Semantic Difference on Non-expert Judgments of Simplified Sentences - An ASR-Based Interactive Game for Speech Therapy - An Impulse Sequence Representation of the Excitation Source Characteristics of Nonverbal Speech Sounds - Dysarthric Speech Modification Using Parallel Utterance Based on Non-negative Temporal Decomposition - Recognizing Whispered Speech Produced by an Individual with Surgically Reconstructed Larynx Using Articulatory Data - flexdiam – flexible dialogue management for problem-aware, incremental spoken interaction for all user groups (Demo paper) - Predicting Intelligible Speaking Rate of Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from Speech Acoustic and Articulatory Samples - Combining word prediction and r-ary Huffman coding for text entry |
| 16:30 | SIG-SLPAT business meeting |
| 17:00 | Wrap-up |
