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Toward a Conversation Partner Agent for People with Aphasia: Assisting Word Retrieval

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Intelligent Decision Technologies 2016 (IDT 2016)

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Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder marked by difficulties in understanding the language or expressing oneself using language. In order to support communication of a person with aphasia, a concept of supported communication has been proposed, wherein a conversation partner assists a person with aphasia in communicating. We are designing a conversation partner agent, a software agent that embodies the functions of a conversation partner. In this paper, we focus on the function of assisting a person with aphasia who has difficulty retrieving words. More specifically, multiple choice questions are generated using a domain ontology and presented in appropriate order to a person with aphasia. Through this question and answer process, the system infers the word that a person with aphasia wants to express.

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This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15K00324.

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  1. College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan

    Kazuhiro Kuwabara, Yudai Wada & Hung-Hsuan Huang

  2. Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan

    Takayuki Iwamae

  3. Abiko City Welfare Center for the Handicapped, Abiko, Chiba, 270-1112, Japan

    Keisuke Takenaka

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  1. Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland

    Ireneusz Czarnowski

  2. Artificial Intelligence Department, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Alfonso Mateos Caballero

  3. KES International, Shoreham-by-sea, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. University of Canberra, Canberra, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Kuwabara, K., Iwamae, T., Wada, Y., Huang, HH., Takenaka, K. (2016). Toward a Conversation Partner Agent for People with Aphasia: Assisting Word Retrieval. In: Czarnowski, I., Caballero, A., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Decision Technologies 2016. IDT 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39630-9_17

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