TITLE:		WORD COMPANSION: ALLOWING DYNAMIC WORD ABBREVIATIONS
AUTHORS:	Patrick Demasco, Matthew Lillard, and Kathleen McCoy
COMMENTS:	(c) 1989 RESNA Press. Reprinted with permission.


ABSTRACT:
In this paper we describe a system, which we call word compansion,
which is designed to enhance the communication rate of a disabled
individual who is using a spelling technique to enter his/her desired
message. The system saves the user keystrokes by allowing the input of
individual words to be in abbreviated form. This work is novel in that
the abbreviations are not decided in advance, but are dynamically
created by the user at input time.