@conference{Dimouetal2011,
author = "Dimou, Athanasia–Lida and Goulas, Theodoros and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Efthimiou, Eleni",
abstract = "Dicta-Sign is a three-year EU-funded research project that aims at making online communications more accessible to deaf SL users. As part of the project, a parallel corpus of recorded signing data was created, using the same elicitation material in four national SL: GSL, BSL, LSF and DGS. The created corpus provides a vast variety of language structures from a significant number of native signers, allowing further investigation of language phenomena in a non-biased, conversational setting that reflects real language use.  The annotation of the GSL corpus contributed in the creation of a basic lexicon of the most frequent sings which can serve as the foundation of an extended inventory. The descriptions assigned to the corpus enable a linguistic analysis based on a SL data driven approach. The latter, has up to a certain degree, been employed into the Sis-Builder Sign Synthesis tool, providing impressive avatar-based synthetic SL representations and giving potentials for extended use of this technology in alternative teaching methods.",
address = "Bristol , UK",
booktitle = "2nd Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics ",
keywords = "SL, synthesis, language resources, building tool ",
month = "June 30 - July 2",
title = "{E}xploiting the {D}icta-Sign corpus data: teaching material for the {G}reek {S}ign {L}anguage ",
year = "2011",
}