Generating acceptable arabic core vocabularies and symbols for aac users

E. A. Draffan, Mike Wald, Nawar Halabi, Ouadie Sabia, Wajdi Zaghouani, Amatullah Kadous, Amal Idris, Nadine Zeinoun, David Banes, Dana Lawand

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Abstract

This paper discusses the development of an Arabic Symbol Dictionary for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) users, their families, carers, therapists and teachers as well as those who may benefit from the use of symbols to enhance literacy skills. With a requirement for a bi-lingual dictionary, a vocabulary list analyzer has been developed to evaluate similarities and differences in word frequencies from a range of word lists in order to collect suitable AAC lexical entries. An online bespoke symbol management has been created to hold the lexical entries alongside specifically designed symbols which are then accepted via a voting system using a series of criteria. Results to date have highlighted how successful these systems can be when encouraging participation along with the need for further research into the development of personalised context sensitive core vocabularies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSLPAT 2015 - 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, Proceedings
EditorsJan Alexandersson, Ercan Altinsoy, Heidi Christensen, Peter Ljunglof, Francois Portet, Frank Rudzicz
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages91-96
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643792
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2015 - Dresden, Germany
Duration: 11 Sept 2015 → …

Publication series

NameSLPAT 2015 - 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, Proceedings

Conference

Conference6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2015
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDresden
Period11/09/15 → …

Keywords

  • AAC
  • Augmentative and Alternative Communication
  • Core vocabularies
  • symbols

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