• DOI:10.1075/DUJAL.3.2.03STO
Corpus ID: 14488069

Improving word prediction for augmentative communication by using idiolects and sociolects

@inproceedings{Stoop2014ImprovingWP,
  title={Improving word prediction for augmentative communication by using idiolects and sociolects},
  author={Wessel Stoop and Antal van den Bosch},
  year={2014}
}

Wessel Stoop, Antal van den Bosch

Published 2014

Computer Science

Word prediction, or predictive editing, has a long history as a tool for augmentative and assistive communication. Improvements in the state-of-the-art can still be achieved, for instance by training personalized statistical language models. We developed the word prediction system Soothsayer. The main innovation of Soothsayer is that it not only uses idiolects, the language of one individual person, as training data, but also sociolects, the language of the social circle around that person. We… CONTINUE READING

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