Using NLG and sensors to support personal narrative for children with complex communication needs

Rolf Black, Joseph Reddington, Ehud Reiter, Nava Tintarev, Annalu Waller

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Abstract

We are building a tool that helps children with Complex Communication Needs1
(CCN) to create stories about their day at school. The tool uses Natural Language Generation (NLG) technology to create a draft story based on sensor data of the child’s activities, which the child can edit. This work is still in its early stages, but we believe it has great potential to support interactive personal narrative which is not well supported by current Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) tools.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguists
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 2010
EventNAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies - Stroudsbourg, United States
Duration: 5 Jun 20105 Jun 2010

Conference

ConferenceNAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityStroudsbourg
Period5/06/105/06/10

Bibliographical note

We would like to express our thanks to the children, their parents and staff and the special school where this project had its base. Without their valuable contributions and feedback this research would not have been possible. We would also like to thank DynaVox Systems Ltd for supplying the communication devices to run our system on.

This research was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under grants EP/F067151/1, EP/F066880/1, EP/E011764/1, EP/H022376/1, and EP/H022570/1

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