<div dir="ltr">========================================<br><br>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br><br>DiGo 2019: Dialog for Good - Workshop on Speech and Language Technology Serving Society<br><br>Place: Stockholm, Sweden<br><br>Workshop Date: 10 September, 2019 (the day before SigDial), 9 a.m. - 5 p.m<br><br>Web site: <a href="http://dialogforgood.org">http://dialogforgood.org</a><br><br>Registration (via Eventbrite): <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digo-1-dialog-for-good-workshop-tickets-68381564099">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digo-1-dialog-for-good-workshop-tickets-68381564099</a><br><br>========================================<br><br><br><br>Speech and language technology (SLT), and particularly dialog technology, has the potential to help educate, facilitate medical treatment, provide access to services and information, empower, support independent living, and enable communication and cultural exchange between communities.  <br><br>The Dialog for Good Workshop (DiGo) aims to highlight the use of SLT for social good.  It will promote novel use cases, cutting edge research and technological developments in any domain which facilitates society, building awareness of the opportunities that SLT offers. The workshop will foster networking among researchers and service providers, leading to further initiatives to develop this highly interdisciplinary area of speech and language research and technology.<br><br>The workshop covers applications  of speech and language technology in areas including, but not limited to, the following:<br><br><br>* Education<br>* Access to Social Services / Participation in Society<br>* Less Resourced Languages<br>* Health<br>* Social/Public services<br>* Culture<br>* Mobility/Migration<br>* Political Freedom<br>* Agriculture<br>* Sustainability<br><br>Please forward to interested colleagues.<br><br>On behalf of the Organising Committee:<br><br>Ben Cowan, Jens Edlund, Emer Gilmartin, Neasa Ní Chíaráin, Christian Saam, Stefan Scherer, Brendan Spillane, David Traum<br><br>-- <br>ADAPT Centre<br>School of Computer Science and Statistics                  <br>Trinity College Dublin                   <br>Dublin 2                                  <br>Ireland                                  <br>Éire-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>ADAPT Centre<br>School of Computer Science and Statistics                  <br>Trinity College Dublin                   <br>Dublin 2                                  <br>Ireland                                  <br>Éire<div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>