Publication - Sign Language technologies and resources of the Dicta-Sign project
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Sign Language technologies and resources of the Dicta-Sign project

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Year: 2012
Authors: Eleni Efthimiou; Stavroula-Evita Fotinea; T. Hanke; J. Glauert; R. Bowden; A. Braffort; P. Maragos; F. Lefebvre-Albaret
Book title: Proc. of the 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon. Satellite Workshop to the eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2012)
Pages: 37-44
Address: Istanbul, Turkey
Date: 27 May
Abstract:
Here we present the outcomes of Dicta-Sign FP7-ICT project. Dicta-Sign researched ways to enable communication between Deaf individuals through the development of human-computer interfaces (HCI) for Deaf users, by means of Sign Language. It has researched and developed recognition and synthesis engines for sign languages (SLs) that have brought sign recognition and generation technologies significantly closer to authentic signing. In this context, Dicta-Sign has developed several technologies demonstrated via a sign language aware Web 2.0, combining work from the fields of sign language recognition, sign language animation via avatars and sign language resources and language models development, with the goal of allowing Deaf users to make, edit, and review avatar-based sign language contributions online, similar to the way people nowadays make text-based contributions on the Web.
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