The Dicta-Sign Wiki: Enabling Web Communication for the Deaf

Efthimiou, Eleni; Fotinea, Stavroula–Evita; Hanke, Thomas; Glauert, John; Bowden, Richard; Braffort, Annelies; Collet, Christophe; Maragos, Petros; Lefebvre-Albaret, François

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31534-3_32

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“…The Dicta-Sign Wiki [7] is a research project funded by the European Union and developed in partnership with several universities and research institutes in Europe. Through the sharing of signs, their goal is to make online communication more accessible for the deaf users, They work with the translation of terms in four sign languages: the British Sign Language (BSL), the German Sign Language (DGS), the French (LSF) and the Greek one (GSL).…”

Section: Web Forums For the Creation Of Signsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Study of the Acceptability of Signs for the Brazilian Sign Language Created in Person and Remotely

Oliveira

Gomes

Freitas

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Teaching a programming language to a person who is deaf or hearing impaired (DHI) has, along with other challenges, the lack of signs to convey basic concepts in computing. This shortage of signs makes learning even harder for the DHI.The creation of signs from co-present discussions involving instructors, translators and the DHI can lead to regionalism, which might hinder their acceptance by members of other DHI communities throughout the country. A way to combat regionalism is through the asynchronous collaborative creation of signs, normally supported by web tools.But are the signs created through web discussions inferior in any way to those created via co-present discussions? This article presents a comparative study on the acceptance of signs created by both methods showing that acceptable and legitimate signs can also be produced using web discussions and the users can not distinguish from which method they come from.

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Section: Web Forums For the Creation Of Signsmentioning

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A Comparative Study of the Acceptability of Signs for the Brazilian Sign Language Created in Person and Remotely

Oliveira

Gomes

Freitas

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…A drag-and-drop facility, first demonstrated in the Dicta-Sign sign-Wiki [5], allows multiple orderings of phrase components so as to create grammatical structures in GSL. Verifying user choices is important at any stage of this process, so that users can be certain about the content they are creating.…”

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“…Since the mainstream school environment is not usually familiar with SL, the sign synthesis tool may also be used by SL illiterate individuals. Thus, in the current implementations, a template-based A drag-and-drop facility, first demonstrated in the Dicta-Sign sign-Wiki [5], allows multiple orderings of phrase components so as to create grammatical structures in GSL. Verifying user choices is important at any stage of this process, so that users can be certain about the content they are creating.…”

Section: Dynamic Sign Synthesis Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To address this problem, a number of research efforts [4], [5] have been reported towards making Web 2.0 accessible for SL users by allowing interactions in SL via the incorporation of real-time SL technologies. These technologies are based on availability of SL monolingual and bilingual/multilingual (among SL and vocal language) resources, with emphasis on dynamic production of SL, where the signed utterance is presented via a signing virtual engine (i.e., avatar).…”

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Sign Language Technologies and the Critical Role of SL Resources in View of Future Internet Accessibility Services

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In this paper, we touch upon the requirement for accessibility via Sign Language as regards dynamic composition and exchange of new content in the context of natural language-based human interaction, and also the accessibility of web services and electronic content in written text by deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. In this framework, one key issue remains the option for composition of signed "text", along with the ability for the reuse of pre-existing signed "text" by exploiting basic editing facilities similar to those available for written text that serve vocal language representation. An equally critical related issue is accessibility of vocal language text by born or early deaf signers, as well as the use of web-based facilities via Sign Language-supported interfaces, taking into account that the majority of native signers present limited reading skills. It is, thus, demonstrated how Sign Language technologies and resources may be integrated in human-centered applications, enabling web services and content accessibility in the education and an everyday communication context, in order to facilitate integration of signer populations in a societal environment that is strongly defined by smart life style conditions. This potential is also demonstrated by end-user-evaluation results.

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“…Within the EU project Dictasign, a Sign Wiki application was developed . The system incorporated a recognition engine based on a kinect sensor, editing software and an avatar for replay (Efthimiou et al 2012). Maintaining a 2 stage classification architecture, the initial level was based on HamNoSys 3 and second stage classification based on markov chains .…”

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2013

Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV

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This manuscript and associated talk gives an historical but not exhaustive overview of work in the Cognitive Vision Lab at the University of Surrey's Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing. Work concentrates on people, tracking or identifying their actions and interpreting the meaning of those actions. To do this we employ techniques from a variety of sources which include the use of Mutual Information in Tracking, Data mining in Learning and using linguistics in

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The Dicta-Sign Wiki: Enabling Web Communication for the Deaf

Cited by 28 publications

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A Comparative Study of the Acceptability of Signs for the Brazilian Sign Language Created in Person and Remotely

A Comparative Study of the Acceptability of Signs for the Brazilian Sign Language Created in Person and Remotely

Sign Language Technologies and the Critical Role of SL Resources in View of Future Internet Accessibility Services

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