Abstract
Natural language generation (NLG) refers to the process of producing text in a spoken language, starting from an internal knowledge representation structure. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) deals with the development of devices and tools to enable basic conversation for language-impaired people. We present an applied prototype of an AAC-NLG system generating written output in English and Hebrew from a sequence of Bliss symbols. The system does not “translate” the symbols sequence, but instead, it dynamically changes the communication board as the choice of symbols proceeds according to the syntactic and semantic content of selected symbols, generating utterances in natural language through a process of semantic authoring.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 105-108 |
Number of pages | 4 |
State | Published - 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2006 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2006 - New York, United States Duration: 4 Jun 2006 → 9 Jun 2006 |
Conference
Conference | 2006 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2006 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | New York |
Period | 4/06/06 → 9/06/06 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2006 Association for Computational Linguistics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Linguistics and Language
- Language and Linguistics
- Computer Science Applications