NLP4Disability: Call for Papers
The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023. 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