The challenges of cross-modal translation: English-to-sign-language translation in the Zardoz system

Machine Translation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-106

  Veale, Tony ^a   Conway, Alan ^b   Collins, Brona ^c  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b IONA Technologies   (Ireland)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cross modal translation; Gesture; Metaphor; Sign language; Space

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS; TEXT PROCESSING;

SIGN LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 0032291320     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008014420317     Document Type: Article

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