Sign Language Generation using HPSG
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چکیده
We discuss the problems of translating English to Sign Language in the ViSiCAST project. An overview of the language-processing component of an EnglishText to Sign-Languages translation system is described focusing upon the inherent problems of knowledge elicitation of sign language grammar and its implementation within a HPSG framework.
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