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5th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Thursday, June 26, 2014

9:00–9:15Welcome & Opening Remarks
 Session 1
09:14–09:45Standing on the shoulders of giants: attacking the meta-problems of technical AAC research
Joseph Reddington
09:45–10:15Graphical Modification of Text. An Approach To Dyslexic Users.
Tereza Pařilová
10:15–10:30Break
 Session 2
10:30–11:00Special Talk by K.I. Boser, M. Goodwin, and S.C. Wayland: Technology Tools For Students With Autism: Innovations That Enhance Independence and Learning
11:00–11:30Dialogue Strategy Learning in Healthcare: A Systematic Approach for Learning Dialogue Models from Data
Hamidreza Chinaei and Brahim Chaib-draa
11:30–12:00Speech recognition in Alzheimer’s disease with personal assistive robots
Frank Rudzicz, Rosalie Wang, Momotaz Begum and Alex Mihailidis
12:00–14:00Lunch
 Session 3
14:00–14:30Individuality-preserving Voice Conversion for Articulation Disorders Using Dictionary Selective Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi and Yasuo Ariki
14:30–15:00Preliminary Test of a Real-Time, Interactive Silent Speech Interface Based on Electromagnetic Articulograph
Jun Wang, Ashok Samal and Jordan Green
15:00–16:00Invited Talk by Frank Rudzicz: Dysarthria as a noisy channel in speech production