NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATION AIDS
ACL/EACL'97 Workshop
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
Madrid, Spain
July 12th, 1997
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum in which researchers in
communication aids for people with disabilities can discuss the problems
involved in these applications and the solutions being investigated in current
research. Researchers who are not currently working in this area but who are
interested in practical uses for NLP techniques are also encouraged to
participate. Applications which will be covered include communication
devices for non-speakers, systems designed for deaf users and tools for
tutoring and rehabilitation for people with language impairments.
The following papers have been accepted:
Alice Carlberger, Tina Magnuson, M. Sharon Hunnicutt, Johan Carlberger
Profet, a new generation of word prediction: an evaluation study
Ann Copestake
Augmented and alternative NLP techniques for augmentative and
alternative communication
Portia File and Leona Elder
Using NLP in the design of a conversation aid for non-speaking children
Nestor Garay-Vitoria and Julio G. Abascal
Word prediction for inflected languages. Application to Basque language.
Elisabeth Godbert, Pascal Mouret, Robert Pasero, Monique Rolbert
A software for language rehabilitation and education of
autistic-like children
Stefan Langer and Marianne Hickey
Automatic message indexing and full text retrieval for a communication aid
Kathleen F. McCoy
Simple NLP techniques for expanding telegraphic sentences
Kathleen F. McCoy and Lisa N. Masterman
A tutor for teaching English as a second language for deaf users of
American Sign Language
John Todman and Norman Alm
Pragmatics and AAC approaches to conversational goals
Takahiro Wakao, Teramusa Ehara, Eiji Sawamura, Yoshiharu Abe, Katsuhiko Shirai
Application of NLP technology to production of close-caption
TV programs in Japanese for the hearing impaired
There will also be system demonstrations and discussion sessions.
Those interested in attending should contact Ann Copestake
(aac@csli.stanford.edu). Registration details are available from
http://www.ieec.uned.es/cl97 (also http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl)
Note that the deadline for early registration is May 31st.
Details of the workshop schedule etc will be available via
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~aac/clworkshop.html