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Accepted papers
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We gladly accept the PDF or Powerpoint presentations and/or posters that you presented during the workshop. Just `mail them to us <mailto:slpat2013.workshop@gmail.com>`_ and we'll add them below.

We received 23 paper submissions, of which 12 were chosen for oral presentation and another 5 for poster presentation. In addition, two demo proposals were accepted. 

The *full proceedings* are available as a `large PDF file <W13/W13-39.pdf>`_ (13MB), 
but you can also access each individual paper from the list below. 
The preface and table of contents of the proceedings are also available as a separate
`smaller PDF file <W13/W13-3900.pdf>`_.
Finally, all papers are now published in the 
`ACL Anthology <http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W13/#3900>`_.

Below are the time slots for the talks, posters and demos. 
For more information about the program, please look at the `program <program.html>`_ page.

All accepted talks will be 20 minutes, plus 5–10 minutes for questions and discussion. 
The poster and demo session will start with a short introduction, where
each presenter is welcome to give a 1 minute presentation (no more than 1–2 slides) 
before everyone grabs their coffee and starts walking around.

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Wednesday 21 August
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10:00–11:00: Invited talk
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   <p>Mark Hawley. <em><a href="W13/W13-3901.pdf">SLPAT in practice: lessons from translational research</a></em></p>

11:30–12:30: Regular paper session
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   <p>Jens Forster, Oscar Koller, Christian Oberdörfer, Yannick Gweth and Hermann Ney. <em><a href="W13/W13-3908.pdf">Improving Continuous Sign Language Recognition: Speech Recognition Techniques and System Design</a></em></p>

   <p>Christophe Veaux, Junichi Yamagishi and Simon King. <em><a href="W13/W13-3917.pdf">Towards Personalised Synthesised Voices for Individuals with Vocal Disabilities: Voice Banking and Reconstruction</a></em></p>

15:00–16:30: Poster and demo session
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   <p>Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi and Yasuo Ariki. <em><a href="W13/W13-3902.pdf">Individuality-Preserving Voice Conversion for Articulation Disorders Using Locality-Constrained NMF</a></em></p>

   <p>Heidi Christensen, Iñigo Casanueva, Stuart Cunningham, Phil Green and Thomas Hain. <em><a href="W13/W13-3906.pdf">homeService: Voice-enabled assistive technology in the home using cloud-based automatic speech recognition</a></em></p>

   <p>Foad Hamidi and Melanie Baljko. <em><a href="W13/W13-3910.pdf">Automatic Speech Recognition: A Shifted Role in Early Speech Intervention?</a></em></p>

   <p>Milan Rusko, Marian Trnka, Sakhia Darjaa and Juraj Hamar. <em><a href="W13/W13-3914.pdf">The dramatic piece reader for the blind and visually impaired</a></em></p>

   <p>Ken Sadohara, Hiroaki Kojima, Takuya Narita, Misato Nihei, Minoru Kamata, Shinichi Onaka, Yoshihiro Fujita and Takenobu Inoue. <em><a href="W13/W13-3915.pdf">Sub-lexical Dialogue Act Classification in a Spoken Dialogue System Support for the Elderly with Cognitive Disabilities</a></em></p>

.. Joseph Reddington. 
.. *Standing on the shoulders of giants: attacking the meta-problems of technical AAC research.*

.. Accepted demo papers
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   <p>Chitralekha Bhat, Imran Ahmed, Vikram Saxena and Sunil Kumar Kopparapu. <em><a href="W13/W13-3904.pdf">Visual Subtitles for Internet Videos</a></em></p>

   <p>William Li, Don Fredette, Alexander Burnham, Bob Lamoureux, Marva Serotkin and Seth Teller. <em><a href="W13/W13-3911.pdf">Making Speech-Based Assistive Technology Work for a Real User</a></em>
   [<a href="presentations/W13-3911-poster.pdf">PDF poster</a>]
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16:30–17:30: Regular paper session
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   <p>Lize Broekx, Katrien Dreesen, Jort Florent Gemmeke and Hugo Van Hamme. <em><a href="W13/W13-3905.pdf">Comparing and combining classifiers for self-taught vocal interfaces</a></em></p>

   <p>Toshiya Yoshioka, Tetsuya Takiguchi and Yasuo Ariki. <em><a href="W13/W13-3920.pdf">Robust Feature Extraction to Utterance Fluctuation of Articulation Disorders Based on Random Projection</a></em></p>

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Thursday 22 August
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09:00–11:00: Special topic session
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   <p>Frédéric Aman, Michel Vacher, Solange Rossato and François Portet. <em><a href="W13/W13-3903.pdf">Analyzing the Performance of Automatic Speech Recognition for Ageing Voice: Does it Correlate with Dependency Level?</a></em></p>

   <p>William Li, Jim Glass, Nicholas Roy and Seth Teller. <em><a href="W13/W13-3912.pdf">Probabilistic Dialogue Modeling for Speech-Enabled Assistive Technology</a></em>
   [<a href="presentations/W13-3912-slides.pdf">PDF slides</a>]
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   <p>Michel Vacher, Benjamin Lecouteux, Dan Istrate, Thierry Joubert, François Portet, Mohamed Sehili and Pedro Chahuara. <em><a href="W13/W13-3916.pdf">Experimental Evaluation of Speech Recognition Technologies for Voice-based Home Automation Control in a Smart Home</a></em></p>

   <p>Lode Vuegen, Bert Van Den Broeck, Peter Karsmakers, Hugo Van Hamme and Bart Vanrumste. <em><a href="W13/W13-3918.pdf">Automatic Monitoring of Activities of Daily Living based on Real-life Acoustic Sensor Data: a preliminary study</a></em></p>

11:30–12:30: Regular paper session
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   <p>Hanne Deprez, Emre Yilmaz, Stefan Lievens and Hugo Van Hamme. <em><a href="W13/W13-3907.pdf">Automating speech reception threshold measurements using automatic speech recognition</a></em></p>

   <p>Kathleen Fraser, Frank Rudzicz, Naida Graham and Elizabeth Rochon. <em><a href="W13/W13-3909.pdf">Automatic speech recognition in the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia</a></em></p>

14:00–15:00: Regular paper session
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   <p>Bart Ons, Netsanet Tessema, Janneke van de Loo, Jort Gemmeke, Guy De Pauw, Walter Daelemans and Hugo Van Hamme. <em><a href="W13/W13-3913.pdf">A Self Learning Vocal Interface for Speech-impaired Users</a></em></p>

   <p>Jun Wang, Arvind Balasubramanian, Luis Mojica de La Vega, Jordan R. Green, Ashok Samal and Balakrishnan Prabhakaran. <em><a href="W13/W13-3919.pdf">Word Recognition from Continuous Articulatory Movement Time-series Data using Symbolic Representations</a></em></p>