Example-Based Machine Translation from Text to a Hierarchical Representation of Sign Language

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03314v1
• Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 15:48:43 GMT
• Title: Example-Based Machine Translation from Text to a Hierarchical Representation of Sign Language
• Authors: \'Elise Bertin-Lem\'ee, Annelies Braffort, Camille Challant, Claire Danet, Michael Filhol
• Abstract summary: This article presents an original method for Text-to-Sign Translation. It compensates data scarcity using a domain-specific parallel corpus of alignments between text and hierarchical formal descriptions of Sign Language videos in AZee. Based on the detection of similarities present in the source text, the proposed algorithm exploits matches and substitutions of aligned segments to build multiple candidate translations. The resulting translations are in the form of AZee expressions, designed to be used as input to avatar systems.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This article presents an original method for Text-to-Sign Translation. It compensates data scarcity using a domain-specific parallel corpus of alignments between text and hierarchical formal descriptions of Sign Language videos in AZee. Based on the detection of similarities present in the source text, the proposed algorithm recursively exploits matches and substitutions of aligned segments to build multiple candidate translations for a novel statement. This helps preserving Sign Language structures as much as possible before falling back on literal translations too quickly, in a generative way. The resulting translations are in the form of AZee expressions, designed to be used as input to avatar synthesis systems. We present a test set tailored to showcase its potential for expressiveness and generation of idiomatic target language, and observed limitations. This work finally opens prospects on how to evaluate translation and linguistic aspects, such as accuracy and grammatical fluency.

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