Uma ferramenta web para construção de córpus paralelo da língua falada e língua de sinais

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to build an online tool for manually annotating texts in any spoken language with SignWriting in any sign language. This will allow the creation of parallel corpora between spoken and sign languages that can be used to bootstrap the creation of efficient tools for the Deaf community. For example, a parallel corpus between English and American Sign Language could be used for training Machine Learning models for automatic translation between the two languages. Such system must be designed in a way that it eases the task of human annotators, not only by being easy to use but also by giving smart suggestions as the annotation progresses. By building a collaborative, online, easy to use annotation tool for building parallel corpora between spoken and sign languages we aim at helping the development of proper resources for sign languages that can then be used in state-of-the-art models currently used in tools for spoken languages. There are several issues and difficulties in creating this kind of resource, and our presented tool already deals with some of them, like adequate text representation of a sign and many to many alignments between words and signs.