A Semantics-based Communication System for Dysphasic Subjects
Abstract
Description
Dysphasic subjects do not have complete linguistic abilities and only produce a weakly structured, topicalized language. They are offered artificial symbolic languages to help them communicate in a way more adapted to their linguistic abilities. After a structural analysis of a corpus of utterances from children with cerebral palsy, we define a semantic lexicon for such a symbolic language. We use it as the basis of a semantic analysis process able to retrieve an interpretation of the utterances. This semantic analyser is currently used in an application designed to convert iconic languages into natural language; it might find other uses in the field of language rehabilitation.
LaTeX 2.09, 12 pages, 2 Encapsulated Postscript figures, uses llncs.sty and epsf.sty. To appear in Proceedings of the 6th conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME'97), march 1997, Grenoble (France)
LaTeX 2.09, 12 pages, 2 Encapsulated Postscript figures, uses llncs.sty and epsf.sty. To appear in Proceedings of the 6th conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe (AIME'97), march 1997, Grenoble (France)