Providing Accessibility to Hearing-disabled by a Basque to Sign Language Translation System

María del Puy Carretero, Miren Urteaga, Aitor Ardanza, Mikel Eizagirre, Sara García, David Oyarzun

2014

Abstract

Translation between spoken languages and Sign Languages is especially weak regarding minority languages; hence, audiovisual material in these languages is usually out of reach for people with a hearing impairment. This paper presents a domain-specific Basque text to Spanish Sign Language (LSE) translation system. It has a modular architecture with (1) a text-to-Sign Language translation module using a Rule- Based translation approach, (2) a gesture capture system combining two motion capture system to create an internal (3) sign dictionary, (4) an animation engine and a (5) rendering module. The result of the translation is performed by a virtual interpreter that executes the concatenation of the signs according to the grammatical rules in LSE; for a better LSE interpretation, its face and body expressions change according to the emotion to be expressed. A first prototype has been tested by LSE experts with preliminary satisfactory results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Carretero M., Urteaga M., Ardanza A., Eizagirre M., García S. and Oyarzun D. (2014). Providing Accessibility to Hearing-disabled by a Basque to Sign Language Translation System . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-015-4, pages 256-263. DOI: 10.5220/0004748502560263

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart14,
author={María del Puy Carretero and Miren Urteaga and Aitor Ardanza and Mikel Eizagirre and Sara García and David Oyarzun},
title={Providing Accessibility to Hearing-disabled by a Basque to Sign Language Translation System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2014},
pages={256-263},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004748502560263},
isbn={978-989-758-015-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Providing Accessibility to Hearing-disabled by a Basque to Sign Language Translation System
SN - 978-989-758-015-4
AU - Carretero M.
AU - Urteaga M.
AU - Ardanza A.
AU - Eizagirre M.
AU - García S.
AU - Oyarzun D.
PY - 2014
SP - 256
EP - 263
DO - 10.5220/0004748502560263