The imagination of crowds: Conversational AAC language modeling using crowdsourcing and large data sources

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 700-711

  Vertanen, Keith ^a   Kristensson, Per Ola ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; CROWDSOURCING; DATA SETS; KEYBOARD INTERFACE; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELING; LARGE DATA; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS; TELEPHONE CONVERSATION; TEST SETS; TEXT ENTRY; WORD PREDICTION;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORECASTING; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053264847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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