American Sign Language generation: Multimodal NLG with multiple linguistic channels

ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 37-42

  Huenerfauth, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; COMMUNICATION SIGNALS; GESTURE ANIMATION; INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY; MULTI-MODAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; OUTPUT CHANNELS; TEXT STRING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 84859892034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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