Chapter 9. Linguistic Normalisation and Local Television in the Basque Country

Arana, Edorta; Azpillaga, Patxi; Narbaiza, Beatriz

doi:10.21832/9781853599651-009

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“…More significantly for our purposes, if those who are not able to speak but can understand Basque are included, the percentages grew from 37% to 53%. This increase has been due, to a big extent, to the introduction of education in Basque (Arana, Amezaga, & Azpillaga, 2010). As a consequence of the linguistic policy in favor of the Basque language (which has recognized it as a co-official language in the Basque Autonomous Community and in some parts of the Charter Community of Navarre 2 ), Basque has been introduced in areas and environments which have been mainly Spanish speaking in the last century.…”

Section: Dubbing As a Problem For Minority Languages: The Case Of The...mentioning

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Linguistic Accessibility for Small Language Cinema

Deogracias

Albizu

2016

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development

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Audiovisual accessibility is considered as a basic right. In a world where audiovisual material is more and more present, several measures have been taken in order to facilitate the access to it by people living with sensory disabilities; some of them at the regulatory level and others at the technological level. As a part of a wider project, this article addresses the issue of the accessibility to the audiovisual material from another perspective: that of the small languages. From this point of view, language is a barrier which prevents potential viewers from watching cinema in small languages. This is a major concern especially in contexts where dubbing is the norm for language-transfer. This paper presents and discusses some results of the analysis of the regulation and practices of audiovisual accessibility, as well as the outcome of some experiments conducted by applying the technology for the audiovisual accessibility in the field of the linguistic accessibility. The case of cinema in Basque language is considered for this purpose.

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Linguistic Accessibility for Small Language Cinema

Deogracias

Albizu

2016

International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development

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“…Not all deaf people have the ability to read and for those who are able, learning two languages is very challenging. Hence, those who learn a spoken language tend to choose Spanish because of its majority-language status (Arana et al, 2007). Due to the hegemony of the Spanish language, all the audiovisual content and information in Basque is out of reach for the deaf community.…”

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Providing Accessibility to Hearing-disabled by a Basque to Sign Language Translation System

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Ardanza

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Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

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Translation between spoken languages and Sign Languages is especially weak regarding minority languages; hence, audiovisual material in these languages is usually out of reach for people with a hearing impairment. This paper presents a domain-specific Basque text to Spanish Sign Language (LSE) translation system. It has a modular architecture with (1) a text-to-Sign Language translation module using a Rule-Based translation approach, (2) a gesture capture system combining two motion capture system to create an internal (3) sign dictionary, (4) an animation engine and a (5) rendering module. The result of the translation is performed by a virtual interpreter that executes the concatenation of the signs according to the grammatical rules in LSE; for a better LSE interpretation, its face and body expressions change according to the emotion to be expressed. A first prototype has been tested by LSE experts with preliminary satisfactory results.

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