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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Saturday, June 5, 2010 | |
| Morning Talks | |
| 8:45–8:50 | Opening Remarks |
| 8:50–9:15 | Using NLG and Sensors to Support Personal Narrative for Children with Complex Communication Needs Rolf Black, Joseph Reddington, Ehud Reiter, Nava Tintarev and Annalu Waller |
| 9:15–9:40 | Automatic generation of conversational utterances and narrative for Augmentative and Alternative Communication: a prototype system Martin Dempster, Norman Alm and Ehud Reiter |
| 9:40–10:30 | Invited Speakers: AAC from a user’s perspective, Rick Hohn and Jan Staehely |
| 10:30–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–11:25 | Implications of Pragmatic and Cognitive Theories on the Design of Utterance-Based AAC Systems Kathleen F. McCoy, Jan Bedrosian and Linda Hoag |
| 11:25–11:50 | Scanning methods and language modeling for binary switch typing Brian Roark, Jacques de Villiers, Christopher Gibbons and Melanie Fried-Oken |
| 11:50–2:10 | Lunch and Poster/Demo/Exhibit Session |
| Posters | |
| A Platform for Automated Acoustic Analysis for Assistive Technology Suzanne Boyce, Harriet Fell, Joel MacAuslan and Lorin Wilde | |
| An Approach for Anonymous Spelling for Voter Write-Ins Using Speech Interaction Shanee Dawkins and Juan Gilbert | |
| Using Reinforcement Learning to Create Communication Channel Management Strategies for Diverse Users Rebecca Lunsford and Peter A. Heeman | |
| A Multimodal Vocabulary for Augmentative and Alternative Communication from Sound/Image Label Datasets Xiaojuan Ma, Christiane Fellbaum and Perry Cook | |
| Demo Session | |
| “How was School today...?” A Prototype System that Uses Environmental Sensors and NLG to Support Personal Narrative for Children with Complex Communication Needs Rolf Black, Joseph Reddington, Ehud Reiter, Nava Tintarev and Annalu Waller | |
| Interactive SIGHT Demo: Textual Summaries of Simple Bar Charts Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Stephanie Elzer, Sandra Carberry and Kathleen F. McCoy | |
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| COMUNICA - A Voice Question Answering System for Portuguese Rodrigo Wilkens, Aline Villavicencio, Leandro Wives, Daniel Muller, Fabio da Silva and Stanley Loh | |
| Commercial Exhibitors: | |
| Afternoon Talks | |
| 2:10–2:35 | State-Transition Interpolation and MAP Adaptation for HMM-based Dysarthric Speech Recognition Harsh Vardhan Sharma and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson |
| 2:35–3:00 | Towards a noisy-channel model of dysarthria in speech recognition Frank Rudzicz |
| 3:00–3:30 | Break |
| 3:30–3:55 | Collecting a Motion-Capture Corpus of American Sign Language for Data-Driven Generation Research Pengfei Lu and Matt Huenerfauth |
| 3:55–4:20 | Automated Skimming System in Response to Questions for NonVisual Readers Debra Yarrington and Kathleen F. McCoy |
| 4:20–5:20 | Invited Talk: Greg Lesher, "Exploiting Web Content for Augmentative Communication" |
| 5:20–5:30 | Closing Remarks |
| 5:30– | Open Discussion on Future Directions |