Design and development of a frame based MT system for English-to-ISL

Author

Anuja, K. ; Suryapriya, S. ; Idicula, Sumam Mary

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Cochin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Cochin, India

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1382

Lastpage

1387

Abstract

This paper presents the design and development of a frame based approach for speech to sign language machine translation system in the domain of railways and banking. This work aims to utilize the capability of Artificial intelligence for the improvement of physically challenged, deaf-mute people. Our work concentrates on the sign language used by the deaf community of Indian subcontinent which is called Indian Sign Language (ISL). Input to the system is the clerk´s speech and the output of this system is a 3D virtual human character playing the signs for the uttered phrases. The system builds up 3D animation from pre-recorded motion capture data. Our work proposes to build a Malayalam to ISL.

Keywords

artificial intelligence; language translation; natural language processing; speech processing; 3D animation; Indian sign language; artificial intelligence; deaf-mute people; language processing; machine translation system; motion capture data; uttered phrases; virtual human character; Auditory system; Banking; Deafness; Handicapped aids; Humans; Morphology; Natural languages; Rail transportation; Shape; Speech; 3D virtual human; Indian sign language; language processing; machine translation; motioncapture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing, 2009. NaBIC 2009. World Congress on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5053-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NABIC.2009.5393721

Filename

5393721