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Methodology for developing an Advanced Communications System for the Deaf in a New Domain
Año:2014

Áreas de investigación
  • Tecnología electrónica y de las comunicaciones,
  • Ingeniería eléctrica, electrónica y automática

Datos
Descripción
A methodology for developing an advanced communications system for the Deaf in a new domain is presented in this paper. This methodology is a user-centred design approach consisting of four main steps: requirement analysis, parallel corpus generation, technology adaptation to the new domain, and finally, system evaluation. During the requirement analysis, both the user and technical requirements are evaluated and defined. For generating the parallel corpus, it is necessary to collect Spanish sentences in the new domain and translate them into LSE (Lengua de Signos Española: Spanish Sign Language). LSE is represented by glosses and using video recordings. This corpus is used for training the two main modules of the advanced communications system to the new domain: the spoken Spanish into the LSE translation module and the Spanish generation from the LSE module. The main aspects to be generated are the vocabularies for both languages (Spanish words and signs), and the knowledge for translating in both directions. Finally, the field evaluation is carried out with deaf people using the advanced communications system to interact with hearing people in several scenarios. In this evaluation, the paper proposes several objective and subjective measurements for evaluating the performance. In this paper, the new considered domain is about dialogues in a hotel reception. Using this methodology, the system was developed in several months, obtaining very good performance: good translation rates (10% Sign Error Rate) with small processing times, allowing face-to-face dialogues.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
Knowledge-Based Systems
ISSN
0950-7051
Factor de impacto JCR
3,058
Información de impacto
Volumen
DOI
10.1016/j.knosys.2013.11.017
Número de revista
56
Desde la página
240
Hasta la página
252
Mes
ENERO
Ranking
15/121

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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Tecnología del Habla
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Electrónica