NLP4Disability: Call for Papers
The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023 http://www.petrae.org/. July 5-7, 2023. CORFU ISLAND, GREECE
The deadline for workshop, poster and demo papers is extended to March 25, 2023.
Website: https://nlp4disability.github.io/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petra2023 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petra2023
Topics of interest
This workshop will explore how natural language processing can be used to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Automatic identification of disabilities from text - Development of accessible natural language interfaces - Generating alternative text descriptions of images for people with visual impairments - Improving automatic speech recognition for people with hearing impairments - Accessible natural language interfaces - Assistive technologies for people with disabilities - Computational linguistics for people with disabilities - Language processing for people with disabilities - Text processing for people with disabilities - NLP Bias Against Disabled People
Important Dates
Workshop paper submission deadline: March 10, 25, 2023
Review Period: March 11 - April 07, 2023
Notification date: April 10, 2023
Camera-Ready: April 30, 2023
Publications
All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be published with the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program.
Also, Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Nafath newsletter (ISSN: 2789-9144) indexed in DOAJ and Google Scholar ( https://nafath.mada.org.qa).
Workshop Organizers
- Hend Al-Khalifa. Faculty at the Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Zainab AlMeraj. Faculty at the Information Science Department, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait - Achraf Othman. Mada Center, Qatar - Dena Al-Thani. College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar