Author : Shruti Chikalthankar and Dr. A.S. Ghotkar

This paper describes an approach to bridge the communication gap between hearing impaired or dumb people and normal people. Using Natural Language Processing, the interaction between different languages is now possible. The system takes input as English text and will generate the corresponding HamNoSys notations as a intermediate language. This HamNoSys notations will be given to avatar module to generate corresponding Indian Sign Language (ISL). The system is developed for banking domain.

Keywords: Natural Language Processing ; HamNoSys; Indian Sign Language; Machine Translation.