Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping (short paper)

Mirella De Sisto, Dimitar Shterionov, Irene Murtagh, Myriam Vermeerbergen, Lorraine Leeson


Abstract
This paper addresses the tasks of sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping in the context of sign language (SL) recognition. It aims to give an overview of the linguistic properties of SL, such as coarticulation and simultaneity, which make these tasks complex. A better understanding of SL structure is the necessary ground for the design and development of SL recognition and segmentation methodologies, which are fundamental for machine translation of these languages. Based on this preliminary exploration, a proposal for mapping segments to meaning in the form of an agglomerate of lexical and non-lexical information is introduced.
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2021.mtsummit-at4ssl.11
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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL)
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August
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2021
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Virtual
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Dimitar Shterionov
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MTSummit
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Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
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98–103
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Mirella De Sisto, Dimitar Shterionov, Irene Murtagh, Myriam Vermeerbergen, and Lorraine Leeson. 2021. Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping (short paper). In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL), pages 98–103, Virtual. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping (short paper) (De Sisto et al., MTSummit 2021)
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