The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum in which researchers in communication aids for people with disabilities can discuss the problems involved in these applications and the solutions being investigated in current research. Researchers who are not currently working in this area but who are interested in practical uses for NLP techniques are also encouraged to participate. Applications which will be covered include communication devices for non-speakers, systems designed for deaf users and tools for tutoring and rehabilitation for people with language impairments.
| Time | Program | Speaker/Authors |
9 00 | Introduction | |
Session 1 | ||
| 9 30 | Pragmatics and AAC approaches to conversational goals | John Todman and Norman Alm |
| 10 00 | Automatic message indexing and full text retrieval for a communication aid | Stefan Langer and Marianne Hickey |
10 30 | Break | |
Session 2 | ||
| 11 00 | Simple NLP techniques for expanding telegraphic sentences | Kathleen F. McCoy |
| 11 30 | Profet, a new generation of word prediction: an evaluation study | Alice Carlberger, Johan Carlberger, Tina Magnuson, Sira E. Palazuelos-Cagigas, M. Sharon Hunnicutt, Santiago Aguilera Navarro |
| 12 00 | Word prediction for inflected languages. Application to the Basque language | Nestor Garay-Vitoria and Julio G. Abascal |
| 12 30 | Discussion | |
13 15 | Lunch break | |
Session 3 | ||
| 15 00 | Augmented and alternative NLP techniques for augmentative and alternative communication | Ann Copestake |
| 15 30 | Using NLP in the design of a conversation aid for non-speaking children | Portia File and Leona Elder |
| 16 00 | A tutor for teaching English as a second language for deaf users of American Sign Language | Kathleen F. McCoy and Lisa N. Masterman |
16 30 | Break | |
Session 4 | ||
| 17 00 | Application of NLP technology to production of close-caption TV programs in Japanese for the hearing impaired | Takahiro Wakao, Teramusa Ehara, Eiji Sawamura, Yoshiharu Abe, Katsuhiko Shirai |
| 17 30 | A software for language rehabilitation and education of autistic-like children | Elisabeth Godbert, Pascal Mouret, Robert Pasero, Monique Rolbert |
| 18 00 | Discussion | |
18 45 | Close |