A Multi-Context Character Prediction Model for a Brain-Computer Interface

Shiran Dudy, Shaobin Xu, Steven Bedrick, David Smith


Abstract
Brain-computer interfaces and other augmentative and alternative communication devices introduce language-modeing challenges distinct from other character-entry methods. In particular, the acquired signal of the EEG (electroencephalogram) signal is noisier, which, in turn, makes the user intent harder to decipher. In order to adapt to this condition, we propose to maintain ambiguous history for every time step, and to employ, apart from the character language model, word information to produce a more robust prediction system. We present preliminary results that compare this proposed Online-Context Language Model (OCLM) to current algorithms that are used in this type of setting. Evaluation on both perplexity and predictive accuracy demonstrates promising results when dealing with ambiguous histories in order to provide to the front end a distribution of the next character the user might type.
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W18-1210
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Subword/Character LEvel Models
Month:
June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans
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Manaal Faruqui, Hinrich Schütze, Isabel Trancoso, Yulia Tsvetkov, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh
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SCLeM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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72–77
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-1210
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-1210
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Shiran Dudy, Shaobin Xu, Steven Bedrick, and David Smith. 2018. A Multi-Context Character Prediction Model for a Brain-Computer Interface. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Subword/Character LEvel Models, pages 72–77, New Orleans. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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A Multi-Context Character Prediction Model for a Brain-Computer Interface (Dudy et al., SCLeM 2018)
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