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Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa Date: Fri Mar 30, 2001 8:42 pm Subject: Re: sign language processing and computational sign language linguistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Angus, Thanks for the addendum :-) I fully agree with you. Antônio Carlos ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angus B. Grieve-Smith" To: Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:10 AM Subject: Re: sign language processing and computational sign language linguistics > The only thing I would add to Antonio Carlos's description is a > few examples of classic computational linguistic applications: speech > synthesis, speech recognition and machine translation. > > The goal of speech synthesis (sometimes called text-to-speech) is > to allow a computer to produce understandable speech. The goal of speech > recognition is to allow a computer to interpret human speech. The goal of > machine translation is to convert a text in one (usually written) language > to another. > > All these have analogs for signed languages. Sign synthesis aims > to enable a computer to produce understandable signs. The goal of sign > recognition is to allow a computer to understand what is being signed to > it by a human. And machine translation can convert from a written sign > language to a written spoken language, from a written spoken language to a > written sign language, or between signed languages. > > -- > -Angus B. Grieve-Smith > Linguistics Department > University of New Mexico > | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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