Workshop on language technology in pervasive computing will be held in Newcastle, UK
19 June 2012 - 19 June 2012
United Kingdom
The main objective of the workshop is to consider the intersection of two research domains which have been separated the past years: NLP and pervasive computing.
In pervasive and ubiquitous computing scenarios, spoken language is in many cases the ideal modality for human beings to interact with a “disappearing” computer, i.e. to directly formulate their intentions and to receive feedback from the system. However, despite recent advances in speech technology, many developers still have objections to employ NLP due to concerns of low recognition rates and issues of disambiguation etc. These limitations of NLP components are not surprising, considering that even human beings can only make sense of spoken language by contextual knowledge. Sensing context however is one of the key topics of the Pervasive Computing conference series, particularly location sensing and activity recognition. We believe that the pervasive computing community can make an important contribution to the field of NLP.
Some key challenges, on which the workshop will be based on (but are not limited to), include:
-Location awareness in speech-enabled systems
- Adapting speech systems to the user’s activity
- Multimodal interaction in intelligent environments, e.g. speech and gesture combined
- Interacting through speech with smart devices in the Internet of Things
- Personalizing devices and services through speaker recognition
- Multilingualism, localization, and translation in pervasive computing
The important dates are the following:
Submission Deadline: March 2, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: April 2, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: April 20, 2012
Workshop date: June 18, 2012
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to anastasiou@uni-bremen.de
Best regards,
Dimitra Anastasiou (University of Bremen, Germany)
Christoph Stahl (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Bremen) FIRST WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN PERVASIVE COMPUTING (http://ltpc2012.blogspot.com(opens in new window))
In pervasive and ubiquitous computing scenarios, spoken language is in many cases the ideal modality for human beings to interact with a “disappearing” computer, i.e. to directly formulate their intentions and to receive feedback from the system. However, despite recent advances in speech technology, many developers still have objections to employ NLP due to concerns of low recognition rates and issues of disambiguation etc. These limitations of NLP components are not surprising, considering that even human beings can only make sense of spoken language by contextual knowledge. Sensing context however is one of the key topics of the Pervasive Computing conference series, particularly location sensing and activity recognition. We believe that the pervasive computing community can make an important contribution to the field of NLP.
Some key challenges, on which the workshop will be based on (but are not limited to), include:
-Location awareness in speech-enabled systems
- Adapting speech systems to the user’s activity
- Multimodal interaction in intelligent environments, e.g. speech and gesture combined
- Interacting through speech with smart devices in the Internet of Things
- Personalizing devices and services through speaker recognition
- Multilingualism, localization, and translation in pervasive computing
The important dates are the following:
Submission Deadline: March 2, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: April 2, 2012
Camera-ready deadline: April 20, 2012
Workshop date: June 18, 2012
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to anastasiou@uni-bremen.de
Best regards,
Dimitra Anastasiou (University of Bremen, Germany)
Christoph Stahl (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Bremen) FIRST WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN PERVASIVE COMPUTING (http://ltpc2012.blogspot.com(opens in new window))
Keywords
Pervasive Computing, Language Technology