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