South African sign language assistive translation

Proceedings of the 4th IASTED International Conference on Telehealth and Assistive Technologies, Telehealth/AT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 7-12

  Van Zijl, Lynette ^a   Olivrin, Guillaume ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b CSIR MERAKA INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Human computer interface; Machine translation; Natural language processing; Sign language.

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; AUGMENTATIVE-AND-ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATIONS; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; RULE-BASED; SIGN LANGUAGE MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION; SIGN LANGUAGE.; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; WORD SENSE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MEDICAL COMPUTING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 62649112915     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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