Word prediction and communication rate in AAC

Proceedings of the 4th IASTED International Conference on Telehealth and Assistive Technologies, Telehealth/AT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 19-24

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

^a University of Delaware   (United States)

^b AgoraNet Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

AAC; Communication Rate; Natural Language Processing; Word Prediction

Indexed keywords

AAC; AAC SYSTEMS; ADVANCED SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION RATE; HIGH POTENTIALS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; WORD PREDICTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 62649097743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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