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Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing
for Assistive Technologies
Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing
for Assistive Technologies
[W15-5100]:
Jan Alexandersson
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Ercan Altinsoy
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Heidi Christensen
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Peter Ljunglöf
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François Portet
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Frank Rudzicz
Talking Heads, Signing Avatars and Social Robots
[W15-5101]:
Jonas Beskow
Bridging the gap between sign language machine translation and sign
language animation using sequence classification
[W15-5102]:
Sarah Ebling
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Matt Huenerfauth
Synthesizing the finger alphabet of Swiss German Sign Language and
evaluating the comprehensibility of the resulting animations
[W15-5103]:
Sarah Ebling
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Rosalee Wolfe
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Jerry Schnepp
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Souad Baowidan
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John McDonald
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Robyn Moncrief
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Sandra Sidler-Miserez
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Katja Tissi
Contour-based Hand Pose Recognition for Sign Language Recognition
[W15-5104]:
Mika Hatano
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Shinji Sako
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Tadashi Kitamura
Synthesizing and Evaluating Animations of American Sign Language Verbs
Modeled from Motion-Capture Data
[W15-5105]:
Matt Huenerfauth
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Pengfei Lu
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Hernisa Kacorri
Evaluating a Dynamic Time Warping Based Scoring Algorithm for Facial
Expressions in ASL Animations
[W15-5106]:
Hernisa Kacorri
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Matt Huenerfauth
Qualitative investigation of the display of speech recognition results
for communication with deaf people
[W15-5107]:
Agnès Piquard-Kipffer
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Odile Mella
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Jérémy Miranda
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Denis Jouvet
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Luiza Orosanu
Predicting disordered speech comprehensibility from Goodness of
Pronunciation scores
[W15-5108]:
Lionel Fontan
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Thomas Pellegrini
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Julia Olcoz
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Alberto Abad
Recognizing Dysarthric Speech due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with
Across-Speaker Articulatory Normalization
[W15-5109]:
Seongjun Hahm
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Daragh Heitzman
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Jun Wang
Vowel Enhancement in Early Stage Spanish Esophageal Speech Using Natural
Glottal Flow Pulse and Vocal Tract Frequency Warping
[W15-5110]:
Rizwan Ishaq
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Dhanananjaya Gowda
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Paavo Alku
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Begonya Garcia Zapirain
Automatic dysfluency detection in dysarthric speech using deep belief networks
[W15-5111]:
Stacey Oue
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Ricard Marxer
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Frank Rudzicz
Model adaptation and adaptive training for the recognition of dysarthric speech
[W15-5112]:
Siddharth Sehgal
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Stuart Cunningham
Pronunciation Adaptation For Disordered Speech Recognition Using
State-Specific Vectors of Phone-Cluster Adaptive Training
[W15-5113]:
R. Sriranjani
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S. Umesh
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M. Ramasubba Reddy
Determining an Optimal Set of Flesh Points on Tongue, Lips, and Jaw for
Continuous Silent Speech Recognition
[W15-5114]:
Jun Wang
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Seongjun Hahm
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Ted Mau
Analysis of Dysarthric Speech using Distinctive Feature Recognition
[W15-5115]:
Ka-Ho Wong
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Yu Ting Yeung
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Patrick C. M. Wong
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Gina-Anne Levow
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Helen Meng
Generating acceptable Arabic Core Vocabularies and Symbols for AAC users
[W15-5116]:
E.A. Draffan
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Mike Wald
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Nawar Halabi
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Ouadie Sabia
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Wajdi Zaghouani
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Amatullah Kadous
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Amal Idris
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Nadine Zeinoun
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David Banes
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Dana Lawand
Remote Speech Technology for Speech Professionals - the CloudCAST initiative
[W15-5117]:
Phil Green
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Ricard Marxer
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Stuart Cunningham
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Heidi Christensen
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Frank Rudzicz
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Maria Yancheva
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André Coy
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Massimuliano Malavasi
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Lorenzo Desideri
Speech and language technologies for the automatic monitoring and
training of cognitive functions
[W15-5118]:
Anna Pompili
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Cristiana Amorim
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Alberto Abad
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Isabel Trancoso
Extending a Dutch Text-to-Pictograph Converter to English and Spanish
[W15-5119]:
Leen Sevens
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Vincent Vandeghinste
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Ineke Schuurman
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Frank Van Eynde
Individuality-Preserving Spectrum Modification for Articulation Disorders
Using Phone Selective Synthesis
[W15-5120]:
Reina Ueda
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Ryo Aihara
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Tetsuya Takiguchi
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Yasuo Ariki
Recognition of Distress Calls in Distant Speech Setting: a Preliminary
Experiment in a Smart Home
[W15-5121]:
Michel Vacher
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Benjamin Lecouteux
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Frédéric Aman
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Solange Rossato
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François Portet
A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Voice Repair for Individual with
Vocal Disabilities
[W15-5122]:
Christophe Veaux
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Junichi Yamagishi
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Simon King
Using linguistic features longitudinally to predict clinical scores for
Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
[W15-5123]:
Maria Yancheva
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Kathleen Fraser
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Frank Rudzicz
From European Portuguese to Portuguese Sign Language
[W15-5124]:
Inês Almeida
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Luísa Coheur
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Sara Candeias
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text
Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR)
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text
Readability for Target Reader Populations (PITR)
[W14-1200]:
Sandra Williams
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Advaith Siddharthan
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Ani Nenkova
One Step Closer to Automatic Evaluation of Text Simplification Systems
[W14-1201]:
Sanja Štajner
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Ruslan Mitkov
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Horacio Saggion
Automatic diagnosis of understanding of medical words
[W14-1202]:
Natalia Grabar
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Thierry Hamon
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Dany Amiot
Exploring Measures of "Readability" for Spoken Language: Analyzing
linguistic features of subtitles to identify age-specific TV programs
[W14-1203]:
Sowmya Vajjala
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Detmar Meurers
Keyword Highlighting Improves Comprehension for People with Dyslexia
[W14-1204]:
Luz Rello
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Horacio Saggion
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
An eye-tracking evaluation of some parser complexity metrics
[W14-1205]:
Matthew J. Green
Syntactic Sentence Simplification for French
[W14-1206]:
Laetitia Brouwers
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Delphine Bernhard
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Anne-Laure Ligozat
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Thomas Francois
Medical text simplification using synonym replacement: Adapting assessment
of word difficulty to a compounding language
[W14-1207]:
Emil Abrahamsson
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Timothy Forni
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Maria Skeppstedt
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Maria Kvist
Segmentation of patent claims for improving their readability
[W14-1208]:
Gabriela Ferraro
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Hanna Suominen
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Jaume Nualart
Improving Readability of Swedish Electronic Health Records through Lexical
Simplification: First Results
[W14-1209]:
Gintare Grigonyte
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Maria Kvist
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Sumithra Velupillai
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Mats Wirén
An Open Corpus of Everyday Documents for Simplification Tasks
[W14-1210]:
David Pellow
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Maxine Eskenazi
EACL - Expansion of Abbreviations in CLinical text
[W14-1211]:
Lisa Tengstrand
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Beáta Megyesi
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Aron Henriksson
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Martin Duneld
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Maria Kvist
A Quantitative Insight into the Impact of Translation on Readability
[W14-1212]:
Alina Maria Ciobanu
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Liviu Dinu
Classifying easy-to-read texts without parsing
[W14-1213]:
Johan Falkenjack
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Arne Jonsson
An Analysis of Crowdsourced Text Simplifications
[W14-1214]:
Marcelo Amancio
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Lucia Specia
An evaluation of syntactic simplification rules for people with autism
[W14-1215]:
Richard Evans
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Constantin Orasan
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Iustin Dornescu
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations
[W13-2900]:
Sandra Williams
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Advaith Siddharthan
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Ani Nenkova
Sentence Simplification as Tree Transduction
[W13-2901]:
Dan Feblowitz
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David Kauchak
Building a German/Simple German Parallel Corpus for Automatic Text Simplification
[W13-2902]:
David Klaper
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Sarah Ebling
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Martin Volk
The C-Score – Proposing a Reading Comprehension Metrics as a Common Evaluation Measure for Text Simplification
[W13-2903]:
Irina Temnikova
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Galina Maneva
A Language-Independent Approach to Automatic Text Difficulty Assessment for Second-Language Learners
[W13-2904]:
Wade Shen
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Jennifer Williams
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Tamas Marius
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Elizabeth Salesky
Text Modification for Bulgarian Sign Language Users
[W13-2905]:
Slavina Lozanova
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Ivelina Stoyanova
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Svetlozara Leseva
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Svetla Koeva
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Boian Savtchev
Modeling Comma Placement in Chinese Text for Better Readability using Linguistic Features and Gaze Information
[W13-2906]:
Tadayoshi Hara
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Chen Chen
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Yoshinobu Kano
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Akiko Aizawa
On The Applicability of Readability Models to Web Texts
[W13-2907]:
Sowmya Vajjala
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Detmar Meurers
The CW Corpus: A New Resource for Evaluating the Identification of Complex Words
[W13-2908]:
Matthew Shardlow
A Pilot Study of Readability Prediction with Reading Time
[W13-2909]:
Hitoshi NISHIKAWA
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Toshiro MAKINO
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Yoshihiro MATSUO
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
[W13-3900]:
Jan Alexandersson
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Peter Ljunglöf
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Kathleen F. McCoy
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François Portet
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Brian Roark
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Frank Rudzicz
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Michel Vacher
SLPAT in practice: lessons from translational research
[W13-3901]:
Mark Hawley
Individuality-Preserving Voice Conversion for Articulation Disorders Using Locality-Constrained NMF
[W13-3902]:
Ryo Aihara
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Tetsuya Takiguchi
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Yasuo Ariki
Analyzing the Performance of Automatic Speech Recognition for Ageing Voice: Does it Correlate with Dependency Level?
[W13-3903]:
Frédéric Aman
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Michel Vacher
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Solange Rossato
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François Portet
Visual Subtitles for Internet Videos
[W13-3904]:
Chitralekha Bhat
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Imran Ahmed
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Vikram Saxena
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Sunil Kumar Kopparapu
Comparing and combining classifiers for self-taught vocal interfaces
[W13-3905]:
Lize Broekx
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Katrien Dreesen
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Jort Florent Gemmeke
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Hugo Van Hamme
homeService: Voice-enabled assistive technology in the home using cloud-based automatic speech recognition
[W13-3906]:
Heidi Christensen
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Iñigo Casanueva
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Stuart Cunningham
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Phil Green
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Thomas Hain
Automating speech reception threshold measurements using automatic speech recognition
[W13-3907]:
Hanne Deprez
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Emre Yilmaz
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Stefan Lievens
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Hugo Van Hamme
Improving Continuous Sign Language Recognition: Speech Recognition Techniques and System Design
[W13-3908]:
Jens Forster
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Oscar Koller
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Christian Oberdörfer
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Yannick Gweth
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Hermann Ney
Automatic speech recognition in the diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia
[W13-3909]:
Kathleen Fraser
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Frank Rudzicz
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Naida Graham
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Elizabeth Rochon
Automatic Speech Recognition: A Shifted Role in Early Speech Intervention?
[W13-3910]:
Foad Hamidi
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Melanie Baljko
Making Speech-Based Assistive Technology Work for a Real User
[W13-3911]:
William Li
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Don Fredette
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Alexander Burnham
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Bob Lamoureux
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Marva Serotkin
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Seth Teller
Probabilistic Dialogue Modeling for Speech-Enabled Assistive Technology
[W13-3912]:
William Li
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Jim Glass
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Nicholas Roy
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Seth Teller
A Self Learning Vocal Interface for Speech-impaired Users
[W13-3913]:
Bart Ons
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Netsanet Tessema
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Janneke van de Loo
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Jort Gemmeke
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Guy De Pauw
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Walter Daelemans
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Hugo Van Hamme
The dramatic piece reader for the blind and visually impaired
[W13-3914]:
Milan Rusko
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Marian Trnka
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Sakhia Darjaa
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Juraj Hamar
Sub-lexical Dialogue Act Classification in a Spoken Dialogue System Support for the Elderly with Cognitive Disabilities
[W13-3915]:
Ken Sadohara
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Hiroaki Kojima
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Takuya Narita
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Misato Nihei
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Minoru Kamata
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Shinichi Onaka
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Yoshihiro Fujita
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Takenobu Inoue
Experimental Evaluation of Speech Recognition Technologies for Voice-based Home Automation Control in a Smart Home
[W13-3916]:
Michel Vacher
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Benjamin Lecouteux
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Dan Istrate
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Thierry Joubert
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François Portet
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Mohamed Sehili
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Pedro Chahuara
Towards Personalised Synthesised Voices for Individuals with Vocal Disabilities: Voice Banking and Reconstruction
[W13-3917]:
Christophe Veaux
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Junichi Yamagishi
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Simon King
Automatic Monitoring of Activities of Daily Living based on Real-life Acoustic Sensor Data: a~preliminary study
[W13-3918]:
Lode Vuegen
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Bert Van Den Broeck
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Peter Karsmakers
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Hugo Van Hamme
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Bart Vanrumste
Word Recognition from Continuous Articulatory Movement Time-series Data using Symbolic Representations
[W13-3919]:
Jun Wang
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Arvind Balasubramanian
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Luis Mojica de La Vega
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Jordan R. Green
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Ashok Samal
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Balakrishnan Prabhakaran
Robust Feature Extraction to Utterance Fluctuation of Articulation Disorders Based on Random Projection
[W13-3920]:
Toshiya Yoshioka
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Tetsuya Takiguchi
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Yasuo Ariki
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Speech and Multimodal Interaction in Assistive Environments
[W12-3500]:
Dimitra Anastasiou
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Desislava Zhekova
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Cui Jian
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Robert Ross
Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction for Service Robots in Home-Care Environments
[W12-3501]:
Stefan Goetze
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Sven Fischer
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Niko Moritz
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Jens-E. Appell
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Frank Wallhoff
Integration of Multimodal Interaction as Assistance in Virtual Environments
[W12-3502]:
Kiran Pala
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Ram Naresh
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Sachin Joshi
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Suryakanth V Ganagshetty
Toward a Virtual Assistant for Vulnerable Users: Designing Careful Interaction
[W12-3503]:
Ramin Yaghoubzadeh
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Stefan Kopp
Speech and Gesture Interaction in an Ambient Assisted Living Lab
[W12-3504]:
Dimitra Anastasiou
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Cui Jian
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Desislava Zhekova
Reduction of Non-stationary Noise for a Robotic Living Assistant using Sparse Non-negative Matrix Factorization
[W12-3505]:
Benjamin Cauchi
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Stefan Goetze
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Simon Doclo
Towards a Self-Learning Assistive Vocal Interface: Vocabulary and Grammar Learning
[W12-3506]:
Janneke van de Loo
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Jort F. Gemmeke
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Guy De Pauw
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Joris Driesen
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Hugo Van hamme
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Walter Daelemans
A Bengali Speech Synthesizer on Android OS
[W12-3507]:
Sankar Mukherjee
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Shyamal Kumar Das Mandal
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
[W12-2900]:
Jan Alexandersson
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Peter Ljunglöf
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Kathleen F. McCoy
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Brian Roark
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Annalu Waller
A free and open-source tool that reads movie subtitles aloud
[W12-2901]:
Peter Ljunglöf
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Sandra Derbring
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Maria Olsson
WinkTalk: a demonstration of a multimodal speech synthesis platform linking facial expressions to expressive synthetic voices
[W12-2902]:
Eva Szekely
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Zeeshan Ahmed
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Joao P. Cabral
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Julie Carson-Berndsen
Discourse-Based Modeling for AAC
[W12-2903]:
Margaret Mitchell
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Richard Sproat
Applying Prediction Techniques to Phoneme-based AAC Systems
[W12-2904]:
Ha Trinh
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Annalu Waller
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Keith Vertanen
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Per Ola Kristensson
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Vicki L. Hanson
Non-Syntactic Word Prediction for AAC
[W12-2905]:
Karl Wiegand
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Rupal Patel
Assisting Social Conversation between Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and their Conversational Partners
[W12-2906]:
Nancy Green
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Curry Guinn
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Ronnie Smith
Communication strategies for a computerized caregiver for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
[W12-2907]:
Frank Rudzicz
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Rozanne Wilson
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Alex Mihailidis
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Elizabeth Rochon
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Carol Leonard
Generating Situated Assisting Utterances to Facilitate Tactile-Map Understanding: A Prototype System
[W12-2908]:
Kris Lohmann
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Ole Eichhorn
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Timo Baumann
Learning a Vector-Based Model of American Sign Language Inflecting Verbs from Motion-Capture Data
[W12-2909]:
Pengfei Lu
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Matt Huenerfauth
A Hybrid System for Spanish Text Simplification
[W12-2910]:
Stefan Bott
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Horacio Saggion
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David Figueroa
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for target reader populations
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for target reader populations
[W12-2200]:
Sandra Williams
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Advaith Siddharthan
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Ani Nenkova
Toward Determining the Comprehensibility of Machine Translations
[W12-2201]:
Tucker Maney
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Linda Sibert
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Dennis Perzanowski
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Kalyan Gupta
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Astrid Schmidt-Nielsen
Towards Automatic Lexical Simplification in Spanish: An Empirical Study
[W12-2202]:
Biljana Drndarevic
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Horacio Saggion
Offline Sentence Processing Measures for testing Readability with Users
[W12-2203]:
Advaith Siddharthan
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Napoleon Katsos
Graphical Schemes May Improve Readability but Not Understandability for People with Dyslexia
[W12-2204]:
Luz Rello
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Horacio Saggion
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
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Eduardo Graells
Building Readability Lexicons with Unannotated Corpora
[W12-2205]:
Julian Brooke
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Vivian Tsang
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David Jacob
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Fraser Shein
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Graeme Hirst
Making Readability Indices Readable
[W12-2206]:
Sara Tonelli
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Ke Tran Manh
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Emanuele Pianta
Do NLP and machine learning improve traditional readability formulas?
[W12-2207]:
Thomas François
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Eleni Miltsakaki
Comparing human versus automatic feature extraction for fine-grained elementary readability assessment
[W12-2208]:
Yi Ma
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Ritu Singh
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Eric Fosler-Lussier
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Robert Lofthus
