*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

Website: https://nlp4disability.github.io/

*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, 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