Intelligent Arabic text to Arabic Sign Language Translation for Easy Deaf Communication

This paper presents an intelligent system to translate Arabic natural language to Arabic sign language based on knowledge base and image processing. This system was designed to help hearing impaired for improving their connection with hearing world and acquiring new concepts. The system plays a role for assisting teachers in sign language domain. Of the most important problems in this task, is that the number of words in the Arabic sign dictionary is very few compared with the words found in the Arabic language dictionaries. To solve this problem the proposed system includes a knowledge base to solve a number of Arabic language problems (e.g synonyms, inflectional, derivational, diacritical and plural).

[1]  Jessica Lin,et al.  Towards an error-free Arabic stemming , 2008, iNEWS '08.

[2]  Imad A. Al Sughaiyer,et al.  Performance Evaluation of an Arabic Rule-Based Stemmer , 2004 .

[3]  Booncharoen Sirinaovakul,et al.  Intelligent Thai text - Thai sign translation for language learning , 2008, Comput. Educ..

[4]  Fredric C. Gey,et al.  Building an Arabic Stemmer for Information Retrieval , 2002, TREC.

[5]  Hend S. Al-Khalifa,et al.  A proposed semantic machine translation system for translating Arabic text to Arabic sign language , 2011 .

[6]  Ioannis Pitas,et al.  Digital Image Processing Algorithms and Applications , 2000 .

[7]  M. Abdel-Fattah.  Arabic sign language: a perspective. , 2005, Journal of deaf studies and deaf education.

[8]  Jian-Yun Nie,et al.  Effective Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval , 2006, BCS.

[9]  Hermann Ney,et al.  Language model adaptation for a speech to sign language translation system using web frequencies and a MAP framework , 2008, INTERSPEECH.

[10]  Kareem Darwish,et al.  Building a Shallow Arabic Morphological Analyser in One Day , 2002, SEMITIC@ACL.

[11]  Lisa Ballesteros,et al.  Improving stemming for Arabic information retrieval: light stemming and co-occurrence analysis , 2002, SIGIR '02.

[12]  Benyu Zhang,et al.  Text Segmentation , 2009, Encyclopedia of Database Systems.

[13]  I. Dan Melamed,et al.  Precision and Recall of Machine Translation , 2003, NAACL.

[14]  Dr.Sami M.Halawani.  Arabic Sign Language Translation System On Mobile Devices , 2008 .

[15]  Jemina Napier,et al.  Sign Language Interpreting: Theory and Practice in Australia and New Zealand , 2010 .

[16]  Robert I. Damper,et al.  Arabic Text to Arabic Sign Language Translation System for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Community , 2011, EMNLP 2011.

[17]  Manabu Okumura,et al.  Towards Automatic Translation from Japanese into Japanese Sign Language , 1998, Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence.

[18]  Robert I. Damper,et al.  A New Evaluation Approach for Sign Language Machine Translation , 2009 .