Abstract
We describe first attempts to textually record non-linear elements of Polish Sign Language utterances. The effects of those experiments will be applied in the Thetos translator. We use the Thel language to textually express signed utterances. Currently our attention is focused on methods used in the PSL for manifesting emotions as well as on pauses done while signing. To detect non-linear elements we examine a predicate-argument (semantic) representation of the input utterance, and analyze syntactic relations existing between elements of input syntactic groups. This process engages specific rules that refer to features of syntactic groups and relations. We have identified a number of partial rules and found a method for building respective fragments of the output utterance. In the paper we show some of them. Additionally, we describe solutions used in the Thel words dictionary for mapping spoken language vocabulary to its sign language counterpart, which is definitely poorer.
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Current form of interpretation is: \(=\) MAŁY \(=\) WIEJSKI DOMEK. (\(=\) little \(=\) rural house.), where the character ‘\(=\)’ means a neutral face expression. However after first experiments we tend to give using the character ’\(=\)’ up because it brings nothing in animation whereas it may augment the pause between words, what is an undesired effect.
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Let’s remind that the verb group structure in the SGGP grammar is different than it is established in the traditional linguistics. For example, object can never be a verb group component.
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Romaniuk, J., Suszczańska, N., Szmal, P. (2014). Thel, a Language for Utterance Generation in the Thetos System. In: Vetulani, Z., Mariani, J. (eds) Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. LTC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8387. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08958-4_11
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