TITLE:		COMPANSION: A TECHNIQUE THAT APPLIES NATURAL LANGUAGE
		PROCESSING TO AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION
AUTHORS:	Patrick Demasco, Kathleen F. McCoy, Mark Jones,
		Chris Pennington and Stephanie Snyder

ABSTRACT:
The goal of this project is to increase the communication rate of
physically disabled individuals via natural language processing
techniques. We have developed a technique called Compansion which
takes as input a compressed message (i.e., uninflected content words)
from the disabled individual, and generates a syntactically and
semantically well-formed sentence. At the same time, we wish to do
this by placing as little a burden on the user as possible. Thus, we
are not interested in a simple coding system where sentences have been
stored and are indexed by their content words.