A proposed semantic machine translation system for translating Arabic text to Arabic sign language

  • Authors:
  • Ameera M. Almasoud;Hend S. Al-Khalifa

  • Affiliations:
  • King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Second Kuwait Conference on e-Services and e-Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) is the native language for the Arabic deaf community. ArSL allows deaf people to communicate among themselves and with non-deaf people around them to express their needs, thoughts and feelings. Opposite to spoken languages, Sign Language (SL) depends on hands and facial expression to express person thoughts instead of sounds. In recent years, interest in automatically translating text to sign language for different languages has increased. However, a small set of these works are specialized in ArSL. Basically, these works translate word by word without taking care of the semantics of the translated sentence or the translation rules of Arabic text to Arabic sign language. In this paper we will present a proposed system for translating Arabic text to Arabic sign language in the jurisprudence of prayer domain. The proposed system will translate Arabic text to ArSL by applying ArSL translation rules as well as using domain ontology.