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| Title | The SignSpeak Project - Bridging the Gap Between Signers and Speakers |
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| Authors | Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney, Gregorio Martinez, Onno Crasborn, Justus Piater, Jose Miguel Moya and Mark Wheatley |
| Abstract | The SignSpeak project will be the first step to approach sign languagerecognition and translation at a scientific level already reached in similarresearch fields such as automatic speech recognition or statistical machinetranslation of spoken languages. Deaf communities revolve around sign languagesas they are their natural means of communication. Although deaf, hard ofhearing and hearing signers can communicate without problems amongstthemselves, there is a serious challenge for the deaf community in trying tointegrate into educational, social and work environments. The overall goal ofSignSpeak is to develop a new vision-based technology for recognizing andtranslating continuous sign language to text. New knowledge about the nature ofsign language structure from the perspective of machine recognition ofcontinuous sign language will allow a subsequent breakthrough in thedevelopment of a new vision-based technology for continuous sign languagerecognition and translation. Existing and new publicly available corpora willbe used to evaluate the research progress throughout the whole project. |
| Language | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
| Topics | LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues, Sign Language Recognition/Generation, Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.) |
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The SignSpeak Project - Bridging the Gap Between Signers and Speakers |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DREUW10.346, author = {Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney, Gregorio Martinez, Onno Crasborn, Justus Piater, Jose Miguel Moya and Mark Wheatley}, title = {The SignSpeak Project - Bridging the Gap Between Signers and Speakers}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |