Deep Natural Language Processing for Italian Sign Language Translation

Mazzei, Alessandro; Lesmo, Leonardo; Battaglino, Cristina; Vendrame, Mara; Bucciarelli, Monica

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03524-6_17

“…The project approach relies on the experience, knowledge, and resources of the previous ATLAS project [10], a pioneering project on the automatic translation from Italian into LIS that set up the complete pipeline and focused on the weather forecasting domain. The LIS4ALL project extends the coverage of syntactic constructions and the lexicon built for ATLAS (about 2350 signs), by adding the signs that are specific to the railway domain (about 120).…”

Section: The Architecture Of Lis4allmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The output of the microplanner is a hybrid logic formula in a tree structure (XML), that encodes an abstract syntactic tree. Extending the Combinatory Categorical Grammar (CCG) grammar [18] designed in the ATLAS project [10] and using the parallel Italian-LIS corpus produced in LIS4ALL, we implemented a new CCG grammar for LIS that can be used by the OpenCCG realizer to produce LIS sentences in the railway domain [19]. The output of the realizer is an XML file specified with the AWLIS (Atlas Written LIS) language, i.e., a sequence of lemmata, accompanied by a description of the meaning of each lemma, its syntactic number and the link to the corresponding sign.…”

Section: The Architecture Of Lis4allmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Prototyping and Preliminary Evaluation of Sign Language Translation System in the Railway Domain

Battaglino

¹

,

Geraci

²

,

Lombardo

³

et al. 2015

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to Interaction

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. This paper presents the prototype and the preliminary evaluation of an automatic translation system developed in the LIS4ALL project. The system domain is the corpus of railway station announcements in Italian. The output of the system is a 3D animated avatar that signs announcements in Italian Sign Language. The preliminary evaluation, which measures the accuracy of the translations at the sentence level, relies through the BLEU-RAC4 metric, a variant of the traditional BLEU metric used to evaluate Machine Translation, specifically designed for sentence level evaluation. The aim of the evaluation is to compare the LIS4ALL translation outputs with the human counterparts.

show abstract

“…However, the symbolic approach we implemented produces the structure of the sentence in the target language. This information is used for the automatic allocation of the signs in the signing space for LIS (Mazzei et al 2013), an aspect not yet implemented in current statistical approaches. LIS4ALL only uses the symbolic (rule-based) translation architecture to process the Italian input and generate the final LIS string.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Errori di OCR e riconoscimento di entità nell'Archivio Storico de La Stampa

Biblioli¹,

Marchioni²,

Ventaglio³

2014

Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 and of the Fourth International Workshop

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We are glad to introduce CLiC-it 2014 (http://clic.humnet.unipi.it), the first edition of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, a new event aiming to establish a reference forum for research on Computational Linguistics of the Italian community. CLiC-it covers all aspects of automatic language understanding, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to advance the field.CLiC-it 2014 is held in Pisa on December 9-10 2014, and it is co-located with EVALITA-2014 (http://www.evalita.it), the fourth edition of the evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian and with the XIII Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (Pisa, 10-12 December 2014, http://aiia2014.di.unipi.it/).Pisa is a special place in the history of Italian Computational Linguistics. Here, Padre Roberto Busa carried out his pioneering research on automatic text processing in the late '60s with Antonio Zampolli, who then founded the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of CNR in Pisa, the first research center thoroughly devoted to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The University of Pisa also hosted the first professorship in Computational Linguistics held by Antonio Zampolli until his death in 2003.It is therefore highly symbolic that the Italian community on Computational Linguistics gathers for the first time in Pisa, there where its roots lie. Italian Computational Linguistics has come a long way. Research groups and centers are now spread nationwide and play an active role on the international scene. The large number of researchers that have decided to present their work to CLiC-it is the best proof of the maturity of our community, strongly committed to shape the future of Computational Linguistics.The spirit of CLiC-it is inclusive. In the conviction that the complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as

show abstract

“…The project is the prosecution of ATLAS, a project of automatic translation into LIS of weather forecasting (http://www.atlas.polito.it/index.php/en). In ATLAS two distinct approaches to automatic translation have been adopted, interlingua rule-based translation and statistical translation (Mazzei et al 2013, Tiotto et al, 2010, Hutchins and Somer 1992. Both approaches have advantages and drawbacks in the specific context of automatic translation into SL.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

L’integrazione di informazioni contestuali e linguistiche nel riconoscimento automatico dell’ironia

Bernardini¹,

Prodanof²

2014

Proceedings of the First Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2014 and of the Fourth International Workshop

0

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We are glad to introduce CLiC-it 2014 (http://clic.humnet.unipi.it), the first edition of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, a new event aiming to establish a reference forum for research on Computational Linguistics of the Italian community. CLiC-it covers all aspects of automatic language understanding, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to advance the field.CLiC-it 2014 is held in Pisa on December 9-10 2014, and it is co-located with EVALITA-2014 (http://www.evalita.it), the fourth edition of the evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian and with the XIII Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (Pisa, 10-12 December 2014, http://aiia2014.di.unipi.it/).Pisa is a special place in the history of Italian Computational Linguistics. Here, Padre Roberto Busa carried out his pioneering research on automatic text processing in the late '60s with Antonio Zampolli, who then founded the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale of CNR in Pisa, the first research center thoroughly devoted to Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The University of Pisa also hosted the first professorship in Computational Linguistics held by Antonio Zampolli until his death in 2003.It is therefore highly symbolic that the Italian community on Computational Linguistics gathers for the first time in Pisa, there where its roots lie. Italian Computational Linguistics has come a long way. Research groups and centers are now spread nationwide and play an active role on the international scene. The large number of researchers that have decided to present their work to CLiC-it is the best proof of the maturity of our community, strongly committed to shape the future of Computational Linguistics.The spirit of CLiC-it is inclusive. In the conviction that the complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as

show abstract

Deep Natural Language Processing for Italian Sign Language Translation

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

Prototyping and Preliminary Evaluation of Sign Language Translation System in the Railway Domain

Prototyping and Preliminary Evaluation of Sign Language Translation System in the Railway Domain

Errori di OCR e riconoscimento di entità nell'Archivio Storico de La Stampa

L’integrazione di informazioni contestuali e linguistiche nel riconoscimento automatico dell’ironia

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About