With the support of CLARIN ERIC we have organised a next online workshop. This time we liaised with the International Linguistic Society which is a non-profit organization that facilitates conferences on a broad range of linguistic topics. You can view their home page here: https://linguistic-society.com/. We have set up a special session for DELAD at the conference website and created a dedicated page for the session and keynote. Here are the links:
- Event page: https://linguistic-society.com/event/language-disorders-2026-online/
- Special session page: https://linguistic-society.com/speakers/delad-special-session-language-disorders-corpora/
We are very proud and honoured to have Iris Nowenstein (University of Iceland) deliver our keynote address, Language and Speech Disorders Corpora as Necessary Infrastructure for Health Tech Accessibility.
Date and time of the workshop: 26 August 14:00 – 17:00 (GMT), 15:00 – 18:00 (CEST)
Theme of the special DELAD session: Corpora for disordered speech
Programme
| Time (UTC) | Topic | Agenda |
| 14:00-14:30 | Introduction | Welcome (Henk van den Heuvel)Introduction to DELAD (Alice Lee & Satu Saalasti)About panel members and programme (Henk van den Heuvel) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Keynote (with time for Q&A) | “Language and Speech Disorders Corpora as Necessary Infrastructure for Health Tech Accessibility” (Iris Nowenstein) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Presentations by researchers (15 minutes each) | “An accurate transcription service for Belgian Dutch” (Hugo Van hamme)“Overcoming data scarcity in the MediSpeech project” (Cecilia Kuan, Mariia Zamyrova, Khiet Truong, & Maxim Popov) |
| 15:30-15:45 | BREAK | |
| 15:45-16:30 | Presentations by researchers (15 minutes each) | “Phonological inconsistency in typically developing and phonologically disordered bidialectal Cypriot-Greek speaking children” (Kakia Petinou)“Beyond corpus building: Handling Multimodal Clinical Speech Data” (Katarzyna Klessa, Anita Lorenc, Łukasz Mik, & Daniel Król)“Mental illness and the legal concept of authorship” (Pawel Kamocki) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Panel-led discussion (Iris Nowenstein, Paul Kamocki, Alice Lee, & Satu Saalasti; Moderator: Henk van den Heuvel) | Questions from audience and panellists regarding the 5 papersDiscussion of panel questions |
If you are not presenting you can still view the session free of charge. In that case you do not have to register, just let us know that you want to attend. We will send you the link later.