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 Jan Alexandersson Ercan Altinsoy Heidi Christensen Peter Ljunglöf François Portet Frank Rudzicz September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-51 proceedings SLPAT2015 Talking Heads, Signing Avatars and Social Robots Jonas Beskow Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 1–1 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5101 inproceedings invited-talk:SLPAT2015 Bridging the gap between sign language machine translation and sign language animation using sequence classification Sarah Ebling Matt Huenerfauth Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 2–9 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5102 inproceedings ebling-huenerfauth:SLPAT2015 Synthesizing the finger alphabet of Swiss German Sign Language and evaluating the comprehensibility of the resulting animations Sarah Ebling Rosalee Wolfe Jerry Schnepp Souad Baowidan John McDonald Robyn Moncrief Sandra Sidler-Miserez Katja Tissi Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 10–16 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5103 inproceedings ebling-wolfe-et-al:SLPAT2015 Contour-based Hand Pose Recognition for Sign Language Recognition Mika Hatano Shinji Sako Tadashi Kitamura Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 17–21 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5104 inproceedings hatano-sako-kitamura:SLPAT2015 Synthesizing and Evaluating Animations of American Sign Language Verbs Modeled from Motion-Capture Data Matt Huenerfauth Pengfei Lu Hernisa Kacorri Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 22–28 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5105 inproceedings huenerfauth-lu-kacorri:SLPAT2015 Evaluating a Dynamic Time Warping Based Scoring Algorithm for Facial Expressions in ASL Animations Hernisa Kacorri Matt Huenerfauth Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 29–35 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5106 inproceedings kacorri-huenerfauth:SLPAT2015 Qualitative investigation of the display of speech recognition results for communication with deaf people Agnès Piquard-Kipffer Odile Mella Jérémy Miranda Denis Jouvet Luiza Orosanu Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 36–41 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5107 inproceedings piquard-kipffer-mella-et-al:SLPAT2015 Predicting disordered speech comprehensibility from Goodness of Pronunciation scores Lionel Fontan Thomas Pellegrini Julia Olcoz Alberto Abad Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 42–46 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5108 inproceedings fontan-pellegrini-olcoz-abad:SLPAT2015 Recognizing Dysarthric Speech due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Across-Speaker Articulatory Normalization Seongjun Hahm Daragh Heitzman Jun Wang Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 47–54 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5109 inproceedings hahm-heitzman-wang:SLPAT2015 Vowel Enhancement in Early Stage Spanish Esophageal Speech Using Natural Glottal Flow Pulse and Vocal Tract Frequency Warping Rizwan Ishaq Dhanananjaya Gowda Paavo Alku Begonya Garcia Zapirain Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 55–59 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5110 inproceedings ishaq-gowda-alku-zapirain:SLPAT2015 Automatic dysfluency detection in dysarthric speech using deep belief networks Stacey Oue Ricard Marxer Frank Rudzicz Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 60–64 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5111 inproceedings oue-marxer-rudzicz:SLPAT2015 Model adaptation and adaptive training for the recognition of dysarthric speech Siddharth Sehgal Stuart Cunningham Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 65–71 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5112 inproceedings sehgal-cunningham:SLPAT2015 Pronunciation Adaptation For Disordered Speech Recognition Using State-Specific Vectors of Phone-Cluster Adaptive Training R. Sriranjani S. Umesh M. Ramasubba Reddy Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 72–78 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5113 inproceedings sriranjani-umesh-reddy:SLPAT2015 Determining an Optimal Set of Flesh Points on Tongue, Lips, and Jaw for Continuous Silent Speech Recognition Jun Wang Seongjun Hahm Ted Mau Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 79–85 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5114 inproceedings wang-hahm-mau:SLPAT2015 Analysis of Dysarthric Speech using Distinctive Feature Recognition Ka-Ho Wong Yu Ting Yeung Patrick C. M. Wong Gina-Anne Levow Helen Meng Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 86–90 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5115 inproceedings wong-yeung-et-al:SLPAT2015 Generating acceptable Arabic Core Vocabularies and Symbols for AAC users E.A. Draffan Mike Wald Nawar Halabi Ouadie Sabia Wajdi Zaghouani Amatullah Kadous Amal Idris Nadine Zeinoun David Banes Dana Lawand Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 91–96 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5116 inproceedings draffan-wald-et-al:SLPAT2015 Remote Speech Technology for Speech Professionals - the CloudCAST initiative Phil Green Ricard Marxer Stuart Cunningham Heidi Christensen Frank Rudzicz Maria Yancheva André Coy Massimuliano Malavasi Lorenzo Desideri Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 97–102 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5117 inproceedings green-marxer-et-al:SLPAT2015 Speech and language technologies for the automatic monitoring and training of cognitive functions Anna Pompili Cristiana Amorim Alberto Abad Isabel Trancoso Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 103–109 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5118 inproceedings pompili-amorim-abad-trancoso:SLPAT2015 Extending a Dutch Text-to-Pictograph Converter to English and Spanish Leen Sevens Vincent Vandeghinste Ineke Schuurman Frank Van Eynde Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 110–117 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5119 inproceedings sevens-vandeghinste-schuurman-eynde:SLPAT2015 Individuality-Preserving Spectrum Modification for Articulation Disorders Using Phone Selective Synthesis Reina Ueda Ryo Aihara Tetsuya Takiguchi Yasuo Ariki Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 118–123 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5120 inproceedings ueda-aihara-takiguchi-ariki:SLPAT2015 Recognition of Distress Calls in Distant Speech Setting: a Preliminary Experiment in a Smart Home Michel Vacher Benjamin Lecouteux Frédéric Aman Solange Rossato François Portet Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 124–129 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5121 inproceedings vacher-lecouteux-et-al:SLPAT2015 A Comparison of Manual and Automatic Voice Repair for Individual with Vocal Disabilities Christophe Veaux Junichi Yamagishi Simon King Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 130–133 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5122 inproceedings veaux-yamagishi-king:SLPAT2015 Using linguistic features longitudinally to predict clinical scores for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias Maria Yancheva Kathleen Fraser Frank Rudzicz Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 134–139 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5123 inproceedings yancheva-fraser-rudzicz:SLPAT2015 From European Portuguese to Portuguese Sign Language Inês Almeida Luísa Coheur Sara Candeias Proceedings of SLPAT 2015: 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies September 2015

Dresden, Germany

Association for Computational Linguistics 140–143 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W15-5124 inproceedings almeida-coheur-candeias:SLPAT2015