Topic modeling in fringe word prediction for AAC

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 276-278

  Trnka, Keith ^a   Yarrington, Debra ^a   McCoy, Kathleen ^a   Pennington, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b AgoraNet Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

AAC; Language modeling; Topic modeling; Word prediction

Indexed keywords

AAC; LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS; LANGUAGE MODELING; TOPIC MODELING; WORD PREDICTION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR NONVOCAL PERSONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 33746103309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1111449.1111509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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