Building a large annotated corpus of English: the penn treebank
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
Semantic knowledge in word completion
Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Topic modeling in fringe word prediction for AAC
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Using NLG to help language-impaired users tell stories and participate in social dialogues
ENLG '09 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
The effects of word prediction on communication rate for AAC
NAACL-Short '07 Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers
SWITCHBOARD: telephone speech corpus for research and development
ICASSP'92 Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE international conference on Acoustics, speech and signal processing - Volume 1
Discourse-based modeling for AAC
SLPAT '12 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
SLPAT '12 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
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In this paper, we examine the idea of technology-assisted co-construction, where the communication partner of an AAC user can make guesses about the intended messages, which are included in the user's word completion/prediction interface. We run some human trials to simulate this new interface concept, with subjects predicting words as the user's intended message is being generated in real time with specified typing speeds. Results indicate that people can provide substantial keystroke savings by providing word completion or prediction, but that the savings are not as high as n-gram language models. Interestingly, the language model and human predictions are complementary in certain key ways -- humans doing a better job in some circumstances on contextually salient nouns. We discuss implications of the enhanced co-construction interface for real-time message generation in AAC direct selection devices.