Transfer-based statistical translation of Taiwanese sign language using PCFG

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Wu, Chung Hsien ^a   Su, Hung Yu ^a   Chiu, Yu Hsien ^b   Lin, Chia Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Taiwanese sign language

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PHRASE STRUCTURE TREES (PST); TAIWANESE SIGN LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 34247182112     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1227850.1227851     Document Type: Article

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