Vocabulary navigation made easier

Authors:
Sonya Nikolova;Xiaojuan Ma;Marilyn Tremaine;Perry Cook
Affiliations:
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA;Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA;Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA;Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Year:
2010

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Abstract

It is challenging to search a dictionary consisting of thousands of entries in order to select appropriate words for building written communication. This is true both for people trying to communicate in a foreign language who have not developed a full vocabulary, for school children learning to write, for authors who wish to be more precise and expressive, and especially for people with lexical access disorders. We make vocabulary navigation and word finding easier by augmenting a basic vocabulary with links between words based on human judgments of semantic similarity. In this paper, we report the results from a user study evaluating how our system named ViVA performs compared to a widely used assistive vocabulary in which words are organized hierarchically into common categories.