Call for papers

1st Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech  Workshop  (AAPS'2019)

Cambridge, MA, USA, September 20th-21st, 2019

The organizing committee has the pleasure to invite you to the  1st Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech  Workshop which will be held in Cambridge, MA, USA, at the premises of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Motivation

Parkinson’s disease affects the cells producing dopamine in the brain. Parkinson’s disease symptoms include muscle rigidity, tremors, and changes in the speech. After diagnosis, treatments can help relieve symptoms, but there is no cure. Thus an early diagnosis is essential and the speech is one of those biomarkers requiring more research to evaluate its potentiality for this purpose.

Despite of the amount of research in the field, there is still room for developing new knowledge, not only about the characteristics of the speech of people affected with Parkinson’s disease, but also about its correlation with the extent of the disease. Automatic systems to evaluate and assess the disease will take advantage of the new knowledge generated in the field to make more accurate and robust systems. 

AAPS'2019 aims at fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and interactions among researchers in the field of the automatic assessment of parkinsonian speech, thus reaching the whole scientific community.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

  • Automatic detection of Parkinson's Disease from the voice and speech 
  • Automatic stratification of Parkinson's Disease from the speech
  • Automatic assessment & rating of voice and speech quality for parkinsonian patients 
  • Prognosis for Parkinson's Disease from the speech
  • New strategies for parameterization and modeling parkinsonian speech
  • Corpora of parkinsonian speech 
  • Speech enhancement for parkinsonian voices 
  • Multi-modal analysis of parkinsonian speech
  • Diagnosis and Evaluation Protocols
  • Automatic Evaluation of Clinical Treatments from the speech 

Submission

Prospective authors are asked to electronically submit a preliminary version of their contributions with a maximum length of 4 pages, including figures and tables, in English using the online management tool. Preliminary papers should be submitted as .pdf documents using the on-line registration tool, fitted to the linked template The submitted documents should include the title and authors' names, affiliations and addresses. In addition, the e-mail address and phone number of the corresponding author should be given. The final version of the paper will be submitted by the authors after its acceptance by the program committee, fitted to the linked template, with a maximum length of 4 pages. 

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Author registration to the conference is required for accepted papers to be included in the proceedings. An extended version of the best papers presented at the workshop will be eligible for publication in a book at the  Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series published by Springer. These contributions will undergo a peer review process. 

Important dates 

If you are thinking about submitting your work to the workshop, please, have in mind the deadlines set by the organizing committee.