School of Informatics

CANES Computer Assistance for Non-English Speakers

List of Related Publications

M. Johnson (2003) Non-disabled Somali-Speaking Patients with Limited or No English: A potential AAC user group? Communication Matters CM2003 National Symposium, Lancaster, p. 19.

M. Johnson, Z. Mohamed, H. Somers, A. Caress and H. Lovel (2003) Communication for adult asthma patients with limited or no English: Can language technologies help in primary care clinical consultations? Poster presented at Pan Manchester R & D Conference, Manchester Royal Infirmary.

H. Somers, M.J. Johnson, H.J. Lovel and Z. Mohamed (2004) Language technology for patients with limited English. EACH International Conference on Communication in Healthcare, Bruges, Belgium, P04.09. Poster

M.J. Johnson (2004) What can we learn from drawing parallels between people who use AAC and people whose first language is not English? Communication Matters, 18.2, 15-17.

M.J. Johnson (2004) Could (non-disabled) Somali-speakers with limited English benefit from AAC? First Regional African AAC Conference "Issues in Disability: Unheard Calls", Johannesburg, South Africa, pp.6-7.

M.J. Johnson, Z. Mohamed, H.J. Lovel, and H. Somers (2004) Pictographic symbols and digitised speech: a new approach to facilitating communication with non-English speaking patients. EACH International Conference on Communication in Healthcare Bruges, Belgium, P04.02. Poster

H. Somers (2004) Disabled by language? Problems of limited majority language skills in doctor-patient communication. IJCNLP-04 Satellite Symposium: Proceedings of Asian Symposium on Natural Language Processing to Overcome Language Barriers, Hainan, China, 104.

M.J. Johnson (2005) Using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technology to facilitate cross-cultural communication with non-English speaking patients. Proceedings of the 8th Research Colloquim of the UK Special-Interest Group in Computational Linguistics (CLUK-05), Manchester, 47-54.

M.J. Johnson (2005) Developing alternative communication strategies to facilitate communication with Somali asthma patients with limited English. Postgraduate Researchers in Science Medicine Conference (PRISM) 2005, Preston. Abstract available online. This paper won the prize for Professional Experience and Development of Patient Services.

H. Somers (2005) Faking it: Synthetic text-to-speech synthesis for under-resourced languages. Proceedings of Australasian Language Technology Workshop ALTW 2005, Sydney, p. 71-77.

M. Johnson (2006) Conducting a complex, exploratory study with a refugee community: practical and methodological challenges. Paper accepted for RCN Annual International Nursing Research Conference, York, March 2006.

M.J. Johnson, D.G. Evans and Z. Mohamed (2006) A pilot study to investigate alternative communication strategies in provider-patient interaction with Somali refugees. Current Perspectives in Healthcare Computing Conference, Harrogate, N.Yorks, p. 97-106.

H. Somers, G. Evans and Z. Mohamed (2006) Developing Speech Synthesis for Under-Resourced Languages by 'Faking it' : An Experiment with Somali. LREC: 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, p. 2578-2581.

H. Somers, G. Evans and Z. Mohamed (2006) Home-made speech synthesis for non-English-speaking patients. Current Perspectives in Healthcare Computing Conference, Harrogate, N.Yorks, p. 339-341.

H. Somers (2006) Language Engineering and the Pathway to Healthcare: A user-oriented view. HLT/NAACL-06 Medical Speech Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop, New York, NY, p. 32-39.