Using semantic authoring for blissymbols communication boards

Yael Netzer, Michael Elhadad

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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 languageEnglish
Pages105-108
Number of pages4
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event2006 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 20069 Jun 2006

Conference

Conference2006 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period4/06/069/06/06

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2006 Association for Computational Linguistics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computer Science Applications

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