Towards Automatic Translation from Japanese into Japanese Sign Language

In this paper, wepresent a prototype MTsystem named SYUWANwhich can translate Japanese into Japanesesign language. Oneof the most important problemsin this translation is that there are very few entries in a sign languagedictionary, comparedwith Japaneseone. To solve this problem, whenthe original input worddoes not exist in a sign language dictionary, SYUWANapplies sometechniquesto find a similar wordfrom a Japanese dictionary and substitutes this word for the original word. As the result, SYUWAN can translate up to 95%of wordswhichare morphologically analyzed. Computer

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ASSISTIVE
• Authors: Masaaki Tokuda, Manabu Okumura
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, ASSISTIVE 1998, Important Problemsin, Japanesesign Language, Mtsystem Named Syuwanwhich