8th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, June 7, 2019
Collocated with NAACL 2019
Organized by the ACL/ISCA Special Interest Group on
Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT)
Program
All workshop events will be held on the Main Floor of the event centre in room Lakeshore B. View the map.
| Time | Friday 7 June |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:30-10:00 | A user study to compare two conversational assistants designed for people with hearing impairments Anja Virkkunen, Juri Lukkarila, Kalle Palomäki and Mikko Kurimo |
| 10:00-10:30 | Modeling Acoustic-Prosodic Cues for Word Importance Prediction in Spoken Dialogues Sushant Kafle, Cissi Ovesdotter Alm and Matt Huenerfauth |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Permanent Magnetic Articulograph (PMA) vs Electromagnetic Articulograph (EMA) in Articulation-to-Speech Synthesis for Silent Speech Interface Beiming Cao, Nordine Sebkhi, Ted Mau, Omer T Inan and Jun Wang |
| 11:30-12:00 | Speech-based Estimation of Bulbar Regression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Alan Wisler, Kristin Teplansky, Jordan Green, Yana Yunusova, Thomas Campbell, Daragh Heitzman and Jun Wang |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:30 | A Blissymbolics Translation System Usman Sohail and David Traum |
| 14:30-15:00 | Investigating Speech Recognition for Improving Predictive AAC Jiban Adhikary, Robbie Watling, Crystal Fletcher, Alex Stanage and Keith Vertanen |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-16:00 | Noisy Neural Language Modeling for Typing Prediction in BCI Communication Rui Dong, David Smith, Shiran Dudy and Steven Bedrick |
| 16:00-16:15 | Closing Remarks |
