Deaf Accessibility as a Service: uma arquitetura escalável e tolerante a falhas para o sistema de tradução VLIBRAS

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Falcão, Eduardo de Lucena
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; BR; Informática; Programa de Pós Graduação em Informática; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Computação em nuvem; Processamento paralelo; Acessibilidade; Cloud computing; Parallel processing; Accessibility; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6135

Deaf people face serious difficulties to access information. The fact is that they communicate naturally through sign languages, whereas, to most of them, the spoken languages are considered only a second language. When designed, Information and Communication Technologies rarely take into account the barriers that deaf people face. It is common that application developers do not hire sign languages interpreters to provide an accessible version of their application to deaf people. Currently, there are tools for automatic translation from spoken languages to sign languages, but, unfortunately, they are not available to third parties. To reduce these problems, it would be interesting if any automatic translation service could be publicly available. This is the general goal of this work: use a preconceived machine translation from portuguese language to Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS), named VLIBRAS, and provide Deaf Accessibility as a Service (DAaaS) publicly. The idea is to abstract inherent problems in the translation process between the portuguese language and LIBRAS by providing a service that performs the automatic translation of multimedia content to LIBRAS. VLIBRAS was primarily deployed as a centralized system, and this conventional architecture has some disadvantages when compared to distributed architectures. In this paper we propose two distributed architectures in order to provide a scalable service and achieve fault tolerance. Scalability and fault tolerance were validated through experiments. For conception of this service, it is used the cloud computing paradigm to incorporate the following additional benefits: transparency, high availability, and efficient use of resources.