WRITING SOFTWARE FOR THE DEAF

为聋人编写软件

• 批准号: 3499624
• 负责人: SANDRA E HUTCHINS
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: EMERSON AND STERN ASSOCIATES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-09-01 至 1989-04-07
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3499624
• 关键词: biomedical equipment resource; child with disability; clinical biomedical equipment; computer assisted instruction; computer system design /evaluation; computers; deaf aid; human subject; language development; remedial /special education; semantics

The overall goal of this effort is to develop an effective software tool for addressing the types of writing problems specific to the deaf population. The Phase I research will focus on the modification of WRITE THIS WAY, a word processing program with the capability of checking spelling and grammar in real-time on Apple II computers. This software, which was developed by the proposing organization for use with English as a Second Language students, can be tailored to provide assistance to the user based on an analysis of common error patterns. Specific tasks for Phase I include the collection and linguistic analysis of 100 writing samples from deaf students in the 4th - 12th grades, modification of spelling- and grammar-help algorithms to assist this population group with selected problems, and classroom trials of the software. In Phase II we will add semantic analysis capabilities to the software to provide additional assistance to the student. In addition, Phase II will expand the software to the Apple IIGS and provide automatic scoring and record-keeping. These changes will be supplemented with a controlled study to evaluate the efficacy of WRITE THIS WAY in improving the writing skills of the deaf. This proposal offers an opportunity to apply a unique technology for real-time natural language parsing to the needs of the deaf; such technologies are usually reserved for "high-end" users, not students.

这项工作的总体目标是开发一个有效的软件 该工具用于解决特定于 失聪人口。第一阶段的研究将集中在 修改写这种方式，一个字处理程序 具有实时检查拼写和语法的能力 在Apple II电脑上。这个软件是由 建议将英语作为第二语言使用的组织 学生，可以为用户提供量身定做的帮助 关于常见错误模式的分析。 第一阶段的具体任务包括收集和语言 四年级聋生100篇作文样本分析 12年级，修改拼写和语法帮助 帮助这一群体解决选定问题的算法， 以及对该软件的课堂测试。在第二阶段中，我们将添加 为软件提供语义分析功能 为学生提供额外的帮助。此外，第二阶段将 将软件扩展到Apple IIGS并提供自动 得分和记录保存。这些变化将得到补充 通过一项对照研究来评估写这篇文章的效果 提高聋人写作能力的方法。这项建议 提供将一项独特技术应用于实时 自然语言分析以满足聋人的需要； 技术通常是为高端用户保留的，而不是 学生们。