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  <Title>Simple NLP Techniques for Expanding Telegraphic Sentences</Title>
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6 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have motivated and described a system that is under development via a joint venture between the Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories of the University of Delaware and the duPont Hospital for Children and the Prentke Romich Company. Important features of the effort include a multidisciplinary team with technical expertise in various areas including NLP and clinical expertise with the target population. This effort focuses on a particular user population which enables us to constrain the system processing sufficiently to make the NLP application feasible. Our effort involves designing the system around the specific needs and abilities of the particular population.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Characteristics of the language used by the particular population being studied has permitted us to apply some simple NLP techniques which are proving to be sufficiently robust for this task. We anticipate the addition of some statistical reasoning particularly as a heuristic for ordering possible expansions that the system deems appropriate.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The system is in its prototype stage and currently consists of a PRC Liberator (a standard piece of hardware which provides access to vocabulary items through the Communic-EaseTMMAP) attached to a Pentium-based desktop PC running the user interface with Windows NT and a software-based text-to-speech synthesizer. When the final details of the user interface and the other software components are worked out, the completed prototype will be implemented on a tablet-based PC and will be field tested with current users of the Communic-EaseTMMAP.</Paragraph>
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