The STAUT-Reader, making general-purpose texts accessible to deaf. | Zendy

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The STAUT-Reader, making general-purpose texts accessible to deaf.

Author(s) -

Anibal De Oliveira,

Francisco Oliveira,

Eudenia Barros,

Adriano Tavares de Freitas,

Thiago Araujo,

Lidiane Castro Silva

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

anais do ... simpósio brasileiro de informática na educação/anais do simpósio brasileiro de informática na educação

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

eISSN - 2316-6533

pISSN - 2176-4301

DOI - 10.5753/cbie.sbie.2015.762

Subject(s) - computer science , sign language , portuguese , linguistics , assistive technology , manually coded language , reading (process) , notation , natural language processing , prime (order theory) , machine translation , artificial intelligence , multimedia , human–computer interaction , natural language , philosophy , mathematics , combinatorics

Deaf individuals have difficulty in reading texts written in languages whose mode is oral-auditory, such as Portuguese. As users of a signed language, it is harder for them to gain knowledge from general-purpose information, contained in books, magazines and newspapers. Technology can be used to help readers with disabilities. For this purpose, we have built the STAUT-Reader, an electronic reader, designed to help deaf to have access to texts originally written in Portuguese. The tool uses a Rule-Based Machine Translation system to produce output texts in gloss notation, a written representation of Libras, the Brazilian Sign Language. To investigate our proposal we conduct an experiment using a counterbalanced within-subjects design to evaluate the effects of our tool on the reading performance of deaf readers. The results showed to be promising, especially for non-oralized deaf.

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