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Improving Social Inclusion using NLP: Tools and resources
An LREC 2016 Workshop Deadline for abstracts: February 07, 2016 Notification of acceptance: March 11, 2016 Submission of papers (for both presentations and posters): April 1, 2016 ISI-NLP Workshop: May 23, 2016 (morning session) CALL FOR PAPERS Social media are an inherent part of life in the 21st century and should be accessible to anyone. People who are to some extent functionally illiterate are currently excluded from properly using social media such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp. We call for papers describing tools and resources that aim to bridge the social divide by providing technology that allows more or less functionally illiterate users to be included in the current and future textual social media. Such technologies and resources allow or facilitate the conversion of non-verbal input (like signs, pictograms) into textual output, or allow to improve ill-formed input into proper text. In the other direction, the technologies and resources allow to automatically augment textual communication by other media, such as pictures, signs, video, and other forms of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or to simplify and reduce messages such that the information is disclosed to the targeted users, and the users are no longer excluded from taking part in social media. We invite abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations or posters (with or without demos) reporting on tools and resources concerning social inclusion, including but not limited to the following: -Input methods of non-verbal input * Speech recognition of non-standard speech * Pictogram or sign selection methods -Input normalization: * Spelling correction * Grammar correction * Speech or Text Corpora containing original input (with typical mistakes) + transcription (normalization) -Text adaptation * Simplification and summarization * Summarization * Augmentative and Alternative Communication * Conversion / Translation between non-verbal and verbal communication and vice versa -Semantic representations * Lexical semantic resources, such as WordNets * Interlingua -Generation * Language generation based on simplified / non-verbal input * Adaptations to voices in text-to-speech * Generation of non-verbal messages -Evaluation * What type of (non-verbal) communication is best for a specific group of users (such as level of literacy, type of disability, culture) * In vivo evaluation -Ethics * Legal and ethical issues * Privacy issues for vulnerable group of users -Reusability of Social Inclusion-approaches (second language learning, Internet-of-Things) More information can be found at the ISI-NLP website (www.ccl.kuleuven.be/ISINLP). This website will be updated when new information becomes available. Organizing committee ---------------------------------------- Ineke Schuurman (Leuven University, Belgium) Vincent Vandeghinste (Leuven University, Belgium) Horacio Saggion (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) contact: ISI-NLP@ccl.kuleuven.be Please submit your paper (4-8 pages, pdf-format) through the LREC START system no later than Feb 7th. The LREC style guidelines will soon be provided on LREC's main conference page. As in the main conference, papers are not anonymous. Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Program Committee, if necessary complemented by additional reviewers. The accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings and made available via LREC. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs ----------------------------------------------------------------- Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about "Sharing LRs" (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new "regular" feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2016 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. |
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