Publications


2018

  • Leen Sevens (2018). "Words Divide, Pictographs Unite: Pictograph Communication Technologies for People with an Intellectual Disability." PhD thesis. LOT.
  • Vincent Vandeghinste, Leen Sevens, Ineke Schuurman (2018). "Pictograph Translation Technologies". In: CLARIN Annual Conference. Pisa, Italy, pp. 194-197. [Paper]
  • Leen Sevens, Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineke Schuurman and Frank Van Eynde (2018). "Less is More: A Rule-Based Syntactic Simplification Module for Improved Text-to-Pictograph Translation". In: Data and Knowledge Engineering. [Paper]
  • Leen Sevens, Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineke Schuurman and Frank Van Eynde (2018). "Involving People with an Intellectual Disability in the Development of Pictograph Translation Technologies for Social Media Use" In: Cahiers du CENTAL, Volume 8. Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.

    • 2017

  • Leen Sevens, Jo Daems, Annelies De Vliegher, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste and Frank Van Eynde (Accepted). "Building an Accessible Pictograph Interface for Users with Intellectual Disabilities" In: Proceedings of the 2017 AAATE Congress. Sheffield, UK. [Paper]
  • Leen Sevens, Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineke Schuurman and Frank Van Eynde (2017). "Simplified Text-to-Pictograph Translation for People with Intellectual Disabilities". In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2017). Liège, Belgium. [Paper]
  • Horacio Saggion, Daniel Ferrés, Leen Sevens and Ineke Schuurman (2017). "Able to Read my Mail: An Accessible E-mail Client with Assistive Technology". In: Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A'17). Perth, Australia. [Paper] (Best Communication Paper award)

    • 2016

  • Jaime Medina Maestro, Horacio Saggion, Ineke Schuurman, Leen Sevens, John O’Flaherty, Annelies De Vliegher and Jo Daems (2016). "Towards Integrating People with Intellectual Disabilities in the Digital World". In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell’16). London, UK. [Paper]
  • Leen Sevens, John J. O' Flaherty, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste and Frank Van Eynde (2016). "E-Inclusion of Functionally Illiterate Users by the use of Language Technology". In: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Engineering4Society. Heverlee, Belgium. [Paper]
  • Leen Sevens, Gilles Jacobs, Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineke Schuurman and Frank Van Eynde (2016). "Improving Text-to-Pictograph Translation Through Word Sense Disambiguation". In: Proceedings of the 5th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Berlin, Germany. [Paper]
  • Leen Sevens, Tom Vanallemeersch, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste and Frank Van Eynde (2016). "Automated Spelling Correction for Dutch Internet Users with Intellectual Disabilities". In: Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Improving Social Inclusion using NLP: Tools and Resources (ISI-NLP, LREC workshop). Portorož, Slovenia, pp. 11-19. [Paper]

    • 2015

  • Leen Sevens, Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineke Schuurman and Frank Van Eynde (2015). "Natural Language Generation from Pictographs". In: Proceedings of 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2015). Brighton, UK. [Paper]
  • Leen Sevens, Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineke Schuurman and Frank Van Eynde (2015). "Extending a Dutch Text-to-Pictograph Converter to English and Spanish". In: Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT 2015). Dresden, Germany. [Paper]
  • Vincent Vandeghinste, Ineke Schuurman, Leen Sevens and Frank Van Eynde (2015). "Translating Text into Pictographs". Natural Language Engineering. [Paper]

    • 2014

  • Leen Sevens, Vincent Vandeghinste and Frank Van Eynde (2014). "Improving the Precision of Synset Links Between Cornetto and Princeton WordNet". In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing. Coling 2014. Dublin, Ireland. [Paper] / [Poster]
  • Vincent Vandeghinste and Ineke Schuurman (2014). "Linking Pictographs to Synsets: Sclera2Cornetto". LREC 2014. Reykjavik, Iceland. [Paper] / [Poster]

    • 2012

  • Vincent Vandeghinste (2012). "Bridging the Gap between Pictographs and Natural Language". In: Proceedings of the RDWG Online Symposium on Easy-to-Read on the Web. [Paper]


    • Other
  • May 7, 2018 - ISI-NLP 2 (Miyazaki, Japan): We hosted a workshop on "Improving Social Inclusion using NLP: Tools, methods and resources" at the LREC 2018 conference in Japan. More details can be found here.
  • September, 2016 - ICT Proposer's Day (Bratislava, Slovakia): Presentation of the Topic ICT 23 by Juan Pelegrin (European Commission). Able-to-Include was shown as one of the succesful currently running projects on the topic of Digital Inclusion in the EU. Click here to download the presentation.
  • September 16, 2016 - Engineering4Society (Heverlee, Belgium): A full recording of the presentation that was given by Leen Sevens at the Engineering4Society conference.




  • May 23, 2016 - ISI-NLP (Portorož, Slovenia): We hosted a workshop on "Improving Social Inclusion using NLP: Tools and resources" at the LREC conference in Slovenia. Click here to go to the website.