Building machine-readable knowledge representations for Turkish sign language generation

Building the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish sign language resource: methods, challenges and solutions

“…In this article, we describe some relevant properties of this database as it functions as the lexicon of the annotated language resource. For a detailed description of the properties of the used online dictionary platform, the reader is referred to Eryiğit et al (2016) which gives a survey of the available Turkish-TiD dictionaries and the reasons why a more comprehensive dictionary is needed. From now on in this article, we refer to this component as the (TiDLaR) Lexicon.…”

“…The annotation (knowledge-representation) scheme that we followed for TiD was previously introduced in Eryiğit et al (2016). Similarly, for the annotation of the Turkish sentences, we followed the scheme introduced in Sulubacak et al (2016b).…”

“…Due to recent developments in natural language technologies, the need for computerized processing for TiD has increased. The first machine-readable knowledge representation for TiD introduced in Eryiğit et al (2016) makes available the necessary infrastructure for its utilization in resource creation: an interactive online dictionary platform and an ELAN 3 (Wittenburg et al 2006;Crasborn and Sloetjes 2008) add-on for TiD. This article introduces a bilingual TiD lexion and the first machine-readable parallel treebank for the TiD -Turkish language pair using the above-mentioned knowledge representation and infrastructure.…”

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This article describes the procedures employed during the development of the first comprehensive machine-readable Turkish Sign Language (TiD) 1 resource: a bilingual lexical database and a parallel corpus between Turkish and TiD. In addition to sign language specific annotations (such as non-manual markers, classifiers and buoys) following the recently introduced TiD knowledge representation (Eryiğit et al 2016), the parallel corpus contains also annotations of dependency relations, which makes it the first parallel treebank between a sign language and an auditory-vocal language.

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Bidirectional Machine Translation Between Turkish and Turkish Sign Language : A Data-Driven Approach

“…There are just a few works about TSL among past studies run in a computational environment. Some of them are based on computer vision [15] [16], yet one of them is a unidirectional rule-based machine translation system, but it is not eligible for comparison since it hasn't been completed yet [17]. Due to lack of resources, we gathered our own data, and created a notation system for TSL for processing.…”