A multi-lingual augmentative communication system

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2615, Issue , 2003, Pages 398-408

  Alm, Norman ^a   Iwabuchi, Mamoru ^a   Andreasen, Peter N ^a   Nakamura, Kenryu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; USER INTERFACES; DESIGN; LINGUISTICS;

AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTI LINGUAL PHRASE BOOKS; UTTERANCE PREDICTION; AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; COMMUNICATION PARTNERS; CONTROL OF THE INTERACTION; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; MULTILINGUAL CAPABILITY; UNIQUE FEATURES; UNIVERSAL DESIGN;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

EID: 33845315555     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36572-9_31     Document Type: Article

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