Spatial Representation of Classifier Predicates for Machine Translation into American Sign Language

Huenerfauth, Matt

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2004 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication
Venue:: Lisbon, Portugal
Date:: 30 May 2004
Pages:: 24–31
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:: 04006

Abstract

The translation of English text into American Sign Language (ASL) animation tests the limits of traditional machine translation (MT) approaches. The generation of spatially complex ASL phenomena called “classifier predicates” motivates a new representation for ASL based on virtual reality modeling software, and previous linguistic research provides constraints on the design of an English-to- Classifier-Predicate translation process operating on this representation. This translation design can be incorporated into a multi- pathway architecture to build English-to-ASL MT systems capable of producing classifier predicates.

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Matt Huenerfauth. 2004. Spatial Representation of Classifier Predicates for Machine Translation into American Sign Language. In Proceedings of the LREC2004 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication, pages 24–31, Lisbon, Portugal. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{huenerfauth:04006:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Huenerfauth, Matt},
  title     = {Spatial Representation of Classifier Predicates for Machine Translation into {American} {Sign} {Language}},
  pages     = {24--31},
  editor    = {Streiter, Oliver and Vettori, Chiara},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2004} Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From {SignWriting} to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication},
  maintitle = {4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2004)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Lisbon, Portugal},
  day       = {30},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2004},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/04006.pdf}
}