The South African sign language machine translation project: issues on non-manual sign generation

Authors:
Lynette Van Zijl;Andries Combrink
Affiliations:
Stellenbosch University;Stellenbosch University
Venue:
SAICSIT '06 Proceedings of the 2006 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We report on the South African Sign Language Machine Translation project, and more specifically on our experience in extending a synchronous tree-adjoining grammar parser approach in order to generate non-manual signs and construct a suitable signing space. We show that post-processing of the target language tree, after transfer rules have been applied, results in a simple and efficient mechanism to generate information on non-manual signs for use in a signing avatar.