The Application of Machine Translation to a NonSpoken Language

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The Application of Machine Translation to a
Non-Spoken Language

• objectives
• domain weather reports
• transfer method
• input output registers

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Critiquing Subsystem

• Performs compatability test
• Offers possible alternatives to input
• It will rains on Monday
• ? Did you mean It will be rainy on Monday ?
• Alters user input
• It will be rainy on Monday
• ? test(it,will,be,rainy,on,Monday,_,_,_,_).

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Analysis, Transfer and Gloss Generation

• Prolog vs JavaCC
• Parse input
• Extract semantics
• Generate ISL parse
• Success?

4
Animation

• Poser
• Python or mouse?
• Alterations
• Smoothing

5
Running the System

• Input English sentence
• User interface from web page
• Critiquing system
• Analysis, transfer gloss generation module
• Script to assign videos
• Output ISL translation