We present a Sign Language modelling approach allowing to build grammars and create linguistic input for Sign synthesis through avatars. We comment on the type of grammar it allows to build, and observe a resemblance between the resulting expressions and traditional semantic representations. Comparing the ways in which the paradigms are designed, we name and contrast two essentially different strategies for building higher-level linguistic input: "source-and-forward" vs. "target-and-back". We conclude by favouring the latter, acknowledging the power of being able to automatically generate output from semantically relevant input straight into articulations of the target language.
@article{arxiv.1707.08041,
title = {Synthesising Sign Language from semantics, approaching "from the target and back"},
author = {Michael Filhol and Gilles Falquet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08041},
year = {2017}
}