Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
10 results found tagged machine translation.
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A Multi-Path Architecture for Machine Translation of English Text into American Sign Language Animation
Huenerfauth's 2004 student-research-workshop paper proposes a 'multi-path' (or 'pyramidal') architecture for English-to-American Sign Language machine translation that unifies the three classical MT paradigms — direct, transfer, and interlingua — int…
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American Sign Language natural language generation and machine translation
Matt Huenerfauth's 2005 paper describes a research programme to build an English-to-American Sign Language (ASL) machine translation (MT) system that generates animations of a 3D virtual-reality signing character. The author frames the project agains…
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South African Sign Language Machine Translation Project
This paper describes the South African Sign Language Machine Translation (SASL-MT) project at Stellenbosch University, aimed at increasing the South African Deaf community's access to information by automatically translating English text into South A…
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Representing Coordination and Non-Coordination in an American Sign Language Animation
This paper introduces the Partition/Constitute (P/C) Formalism, a new computational representation for encoding the multichannel structure of American Sign Language (ASL) performances to support English-to-ASL machine translation and animation. ASL i…
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The Development of Language Processing Support for the ViSiCAST Project
This paper from the University of East Anglia describes early work on the ViSiCAST project (Virtual Signing, Animation, Capture, Storage and Transmission), a 3-year EU-funded initiative to provide improved access to services for Deaf citizens through…
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A Linguistically Motivated Model for Speed and Pausing in Animations of American Sign Language
This paper tackles a critical accessibility challenge: many deaf adults in the United States have English reading levels below average 10-year-old hearing students, creating barriers to accessing written web content. Computer-generated animations of …
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Deep Learning Methods for Sign Language Translation
This comprehensive study evaluates deep learning methods for translating sign language video directly to spoken/written text—critically, without requiring the intermediate step of gloss-based recognition (manual sign-for-sign transcription). The rese…
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Pattern recognition and synthesis for sign language translation system
This paper describes a bidirectional sign language translation system being developed to translate between Japanese Sign Language (JSL) and written Japanese. The system addresses both directions of translation: recognizing sign language input and con…
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Mobile Sign Language Translation System for Deaf Community
This paper from the University of Tunis presents a mobile web service for translating written text into sign language using a 3D virtual signing agent on Android devices. The system addresses two interrelated accessibility challenges: deaf and hard o…
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Sign Language Recognition, Generation, and Translation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This paper provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of sign language processing — encompassing recognition, generation, and translation — produced through a two-day workshop bringing together 39 experts from computer science, linguistics, …