Comparative Analysis of Fixed-Vocabulary Communication Acceleration Techniques

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 196-206

  Vanderheiden, Gregg C ^a   Kelso, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

abbreviation expansion; acceleration; aided communication; prediction; vocabularies; word frequency; word sets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961415189     PISSN: 07434618     EISSN: 14773848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07434618712331274519     Document Type: Article

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