Computer Language

Sign language, in which words and sentences are mainly represented by hand gestures, is an important means of communication for hearing-impaired people. This paper describes a new sign language translation system which can translate between Japanese sign language and spoken or written Japanese. In this system, hand gestures are entered into a computer using a glove-based sensing device. The gestures are then recognized and translated into Japanese speech. Conversely, Japanese speech is recognized and translated into sign language expressing in three-dimensional computer graphic animations of sign language gestures.

The genitive relation is one of the most complex semantic structures, since it could express wide range of different connection types between entities, even in a single language. Thus, transformation of its syntactic form to a formal computer language is far from clear. In the last decade, several natural language database interfaces (NLIDBs) have been proposed, however, a detailed or a general description of this problem is still missing in the literature. In this paper, we present a general solution for translating genitive phrases into SQL queries which contains both language dependent and language independent parts. Our solution is optimized and tested for Hungarian, however, most of the work can be easily adopted for other languages as well.