Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (2012)

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Jan Alexandersson | Peter Ljunglöf | Kathleen F. McCoy | Brian Roark | Annalu Waller

A free and open-source tool that reads movie subtitles aloud
Peter Ljunglöf | Sandra Derbring | Maria Olsson

WinkTalk: a demonstration of a multimodal speech synthesis platform linking facial expressions to expressive synthetic voices
Éva Székely | Zeeshan Ahmed | João P. Cabral | Julie Carson-Berndsen

Discourse-Based Modeling for AAC
Margaret Mitchell | Richard Sproat

Applying Prediction Techniques to Phoneme-based AAC Systems
Ha Trinh | Annalu Waller | Keith Vertanen | Per Ola Kristensson | Vicki L. Hanson

Non-Syntactic Word Prediction for AAC
Karl Wiegand | Rupal Patel

Assisting Social Conversation between Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and their Conversational Partners
Nancy Green | Curry Guinn | Ronnie Smith

Communication strategies for a computerized caregiver for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
Frank Rudzicz | Rozanne Wilson | Alex Mihailidis | Elizabeth Rochon | Carol Leonard

Generating Situated Assisting Utterances to Facilitate Tactile-Map Understanding: A Prototype System
Kris Lohmann | Ole Eichhorn | Timo Baumann

Learning a Vector-Based Model of American Sign Language Inflecting Verbs from Motion-Capture Data
Pengfei Lu | Matt Huenerfauth

A Hybrid System for Spanish Text Simplification
Stefan Bott | Horacio Saggion | David Figueroa