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Keith Vertanen

3 accepted papers

2025

Adapting Large Language Models for Character-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication

EMNLP 2025

Users of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) may write letter-by-letter via an interface that uses a character language model. However, most state-of-the-art large pretrained language models predict subword tokens of variable length. We investigate how to practically use such models to

2021

Accelerating Text Communication via Abbreviated Sentence Input

ACL 2021long

Typing every character in a text message may require more time or effort than strictly necessary. Skipping spaces or other characters may be able to speed input and reduce a user’s physical input effort. This can be particularly important for people with motor impairments. In a large crowdsourced st…