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The European Assistive Technology Information Portal (EASTIN): Improving Usability through Language Technologies

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The EASTIN Portal – which aggregates the contents of six national databases and make it searchable in 22 European languages – is currently the major information system on assistive technology available in Europe. Its usability has been recently improved through the use of advanced language technologies, thanks to the EU-funded project EASTIN-CL. The project developed three main components (the query processing, the machine translation, and the speech output) that have been implemented and plugged to the existing EASTIN website.

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  • Language technology
  • AT information
  • Search query processing

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  1. Polo Tecnologico, Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milano, Italy

    Valerio Gower, Renzo Andrich & Andrea Agnoletto

  2. Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Köln, Germany

    Petra Winkelmann

  3. Hjælpemiddelinstituttet, Taastrup, Denmark

    Thomas Lyhne

  4. Tilde, Riga, Latvia

    Roberts Rozis

  5. Linguatec GmbH, Munich, Germany

    Gregor Thurmair

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., 94117, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

  3. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University, Botanická 68A, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

  4. Institute "integriert studieren", Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Gower, V. et al. (2012). The European Assistive Technology Information Portal (EASTIN): Improving Usability through Language Technologies. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_32

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