- From: Gottfried Zimmermann <gzimmermann@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:46:52 +0100
- To: <wai-xtech@w3.org>
The 7th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology (AAATE 2003) was Aug 31 - Sep 3 this year in Dublin. There was one session on AAC which had interesting links to the semantic web and also to Lisa's whitepaper on natural language usage, so i thought it's worth sharing some of the content with you. Sorry it took me so long to get back with this to you. Particularly there were two interesting presentations: (1) Improving Access to the Internet Within the AAC Community David Poulson, Colette Nicolle Loughborough University UK The EU WWAAC (World Wide Augmentative and Alternative Communication) project (www.wwaac.org) is contributing to the development of WCAG 2.0. They have an adapted Web browser that supports symbol and verbal language representations. They are also working on "concept coding", a mechanism to transfer semantic codes that can be represented in symbol alphabets. An abstract of the paper is available at http://www.atireland.ie/aaate/php/article.php?article=141&event=48. (2) People using Graphic Symbol based Augmentative and Alternative Communication and the Internet: Guidelines and Tools for Supporting Symbol Conversation in Web Browsing and Email Lundalv, M. Lysley, A. Clarke,M. DART, Sweden Concept coding tools are existing that facilitate email exchange between an English PCS user and a Swedish Bliss user, for example. Works with verbal languages too, if using a constraint vocabulary that is analogous to the symbol sets. The Concept Coding Framework (CCF) aims to link existing concept coding tools to Web based semantic approaches. It will start with linking AAC vocabularies, and the "Voice of America" (VOA) Special English Word Book (1500 words), to Kaon WordNet using RDF. XPointer technology will be used to tag any word of a given document. Information on the VOA Special English and its Word Book can be found at http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/. An abstract of the AAATE 2003 paper is available at http://www.atireland.ie/aaate/php/article.php?article=62&event=48. Gottfried ___________________________________________________ Dr. Gottfried Zimmermann ICT Accessibility Architect Access Technologies Group, Germany http://www.accesstechnologiesgroup.com Phone +49 7121 790806 ___________________________________________________
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