A multi-path architecture for machine translation of English text into American sign language animation

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 25-30

  Huenerfauth, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); VIRTUAL REALITY;

3D SCENE MODELLING; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; DIRECT APPROACH; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MODELING SOFTWARES; MULTIPATH; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84947124829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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