Call for papers

1st Automatic Assessment of Parkinsonian Speech Workshop (AAPS2019)

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 an extended abstract of their contributions using the online management tool. Preliminary papers should be submitted as .pdf documents using the on-line management tool of the workshop, fitted to the linked template with a maximum length of 4 pages (recommended length 1 page), including figures and tables, in English. 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.

Workshop proceedings will be edited in electronic form with an ISBN. 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 referred journal.

Schedule

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

• Proposal due June, 15th 2019
• Notification of acceptance July,1st, 2019
• Final papers due August 25th, 2019
• Preliminary program September 1st, 2019
• Workshop September 20-21, 2019
• MISTI Global Seed Funds Award
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
• Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Juan Ignacio Godino-Llorente, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
• Elizabeth C. Jeung-Yoon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Laureano Moro-Velázquez, Johns Hopkins University, (JHU) 
• José M. Díaz-López (UPM)
• José L. Rodríguez-Vázquez (UPM)
• Jorge A. Gómez-García, (UPM)
• José Peinado Serrano, (UPM)

Registration and Information

Registration will be handled via the AAPS2019 web site (http://www.byo.ics.upm.es/AAPS).

Please contact the secretariat (aaps19@etsist.upm.es) for further information.

Sponsors

Program Chairs

Scientific Secretariat

Local Organizing Committee