Using NLG to help language-impaired users tell stories and participate in social dialogues

Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-8

  Reiter, Ehud ^a   Turner, Ross ^a   Alm, Norman ^b   Black, Rolf ^b   Dempster, Martin ^b   Waller, Annalu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; HUMAN REHABILITATION ENGINEERING;

AAC SYSTEMS; AUGMENTATIVE-AND-ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; COMMUNICATION AIDS; IN CONTEXTS; SOCIAL DIALOGUE; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; STORY TELLING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 70349131807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610195.1610196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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