Transition network grammars for natural language analysis
Communications of the ACM
Syntactic Pre-Processing in Single-Word Prediction for Disabled People
Syntactic Pre-Processing in Single-Word Prediction for Disabled People
The Future of Text-Meaning in Computational Linguistics
TSD '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
NAACL-Short '07 Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers
Testing the efficacy of part-of-speech information in word completion
TextEntry '03 Proceedings of the 2003 EACL Workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods
Individual differences in the interpretation of text: Implications for information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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In this paper, we present findings from a human judgement task we conducted on the effectiveness of syntax filtering in a word completion task. Human participants were asked to review a series of incomplete sentences and identify which words from accompanying lists extend the expressions in a grammatically appropriate way. The accompanying word lists were generated by two word completion systems (our own plus a third-party commercial system) where the ungrammatical items were filtered out. Overall, participants agreed more, to a statistically significant degree, with the syntax-filtered systems than with baseline. However, further analysis suggests that syntax filtering alone does not necessarily improve the overall acceptability and usability of the word completion output. Given that word completion is typically employed in applications to aid writing, unlike other NLP tasks, accounting for the role of writer vs. reader becomes critical. Evaluating word completion and, more generally, applications for alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) will be discussed.