Compound sentence and pronoun generation in Sanyog: An Iconic Communication System for People with Speech and Motor Impairments

Abstract

Serious Speech and Motor Impairment (SSMI) affects a sizeable portion of the Indian population. They are unable to communicate normally because of their physical impairment. For persons who are physically disabled, such as those who have cerebral palsy, speech disorders, or other motor neuron difficulties, the Sanyog is a tool that helps them speak and communicate. The user communicates with icons in this Iconic Communication System (ICS). The collection of chosen icons is transformed into an instantiated representation, which resembles a frame. A natural language simple sentence generator accepts this intermediate representation. The proposed work aim to creates compound sentence from the subject's input in Sanyog in Bengali language. Two simple sentences are aggregated to form compound sentence. After that we applies the rules of pronolninalization to generate pronouns which makes the compound sentence more fluent. In this paper among the different categories of pronouns we have only concentrate on anaphoric pronoun generation. Lastly the correctness of the generated sentences are checked.