Uma estratégia de tradução automática baseada em regras do Português Brasileiro para Língua Brasileira de Sinais

Abstract

Sign languages are the natural form of communication among the deaf people. Unlike oral languages that use sound in communication, sign languages use a visual channel, i.e., a set of manuals linguistic elements, face and body to articulate the signs. Spoken languages are only a second language for the deaf people, many of them find it difficult to understand and communicate through texts in oral languages. In addition, the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) when they are developed, rarely consider the requirements and needs of people with disabilities. Therefore, to try to reduce these problems, this research aims at developing a computational solution to automatically translate general domain texts for gloss (a Brazilian Sign Language textual representation) efficiently. The translator will be used to compose the VLIBRAS, a more general, open, and free service/plataform for translation of digital content for videos or LIBRAS animations. The VLIBRAS is designed to translate content in different ICTs, such as Digital TV, Web, Film and mobile devices.