Sign Language technologies and resources of the Dicta-Sign project

Eleni Efthimiou (1) , Stavroula-Evita Fotinea (1) , Thomas Hanke (2) , John Glauert (3) , Richard Bowden (4) , Annelies Braffort (5, 6) , Christophe Collet (7) , Petros Maragos (8) , François Lefebvre-Albaret (9)

1 ILSP - Institute for Language and Speech Processing
2 UHH - Universität Hamburg
3 UEA - University of East Anglia [Norwich]
4 UNIS - University of Surrey
5 ILES - Information, Langue Ecrite et Signée
6 ILES - Information, Langue Ecrite et Signée
7 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
8 Computer Vision, Speech Communication and Signal Processing Group
9 Websourd

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.

Mots clés: Sign language technologies; multilingual sign language resources; sign language Web 2.0 applications; Deaf communication; human-computer interfaces (HCI) for Deaf users

Domaines: Linguistique; Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Thomas Hanke, John Glauert, Richard Bowden, et al.. Sign Language technologies and resources of the Dicta-Sign project. 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), May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey. ⟨hal-03404004⟩