Abstract: We describe how a Dutch Text-to-Pictograph translation system, designed to augment written text for people with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities (IDD), was adapted in order to be usable for English and Spanish. The original system has a language-independent design. As far as the textual part is concerned, it is adaptable to all natural languages for which interlingual WordNet [1] links, lemmatizers and part-of-speech taggers are available. As far as the pictographic part is concerned, it can be modified for various pictographic langua...
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Topics: 
Linguistics
Natural language processing
Artificial intelligence