December 19, Wednesday
12:00 – 14:00
Natural Language Generation in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Bio-Informatics seminar
Lecturer : Dr. Yael Netzer
Affiliation : CS, BGU
Location : 202/37
Host : Student Seminar
The field of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is concerned with studying methods of communication that can be added to natural communication (speech and writing), especially when an individual lacks some of the skills to achieve it. Natural language processing techniques have been used for AAC applications to enhance the rate of communication and extend the range of expressions that can be generated. The key applications include message generation, abbreviation expansion, word prediction and text simplification. In my talk I will present the world of AAC, the usage of NLP within AAC, and specifically natural language generation systems including the one developed in BGU.