Challenges for Linguistically-Driven Computer-Based Sign Recognition from Continuous Signing for American Sign Language [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 There have been recent advances in computer-based recognition of isolated, citation-form signs from video. There are many challenges for such a task, not least the naturally occurring inter- and intra- signer synchronic variation in sign production, including sociolinguistic variation in the realization of certain signs.
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Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli [PDF]
, 2012 (first paragraph) Since its advent half a century ago, the field of sign language linguistics has had close ties to education and the empowerment of deaf communities, a union that is fittingly celebrated by Deaf around the world: The impact of language ...
de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick
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Sign languages: Then and now [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2020 A way of communication on an equal footing with oral and written speech is sign language. Oral speech is a common way of communication, written speech has, with the development of information technologies, been taking up more and more space.
Isaković Ljubica S. +2 more
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Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Signed languages are the primary means of communication for many deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Since signed languages exhibit all the fundamental linguistic properties of natural language, we believe that tools and theories of Natural Language Processing (NLP) are crucial towards its modeling.
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Positive signs – How sign language typology benefits deaf communities and linguistic theory [PDF]
, 2016 Sign language typology is the systematic comparative study of linguistic structures across sign languages, and has emerged as a separate linguistic sub-discipline over the past 15 years.
Panda, Panda, Roland Pfau, Ulrike Zeshan
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CiCo: Domain-Aware Sign Language Retrieval via Cross-Lingual Contrastive Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This work focuses on sign language retrieval-a recently proposed task for sign language understanding. Sign language retrieval consists of two sub-tasks: text-to-sign-video (T2V) retrieval and sign-video-to-text (V2T) retrieval. Different from traditional video-text retrieval, sign language videos, not only contain visual signals but also carry ...
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The Signs of Silence – An Overview of Systems of Sign Languages and Co-Speech Gestures
ELOPE, 2019 The paper presents an overview of sign languages and co-speech gestures as two means of communication realised through the visuo-spatial modality. We look at previous research to examine the correlation between spoken and sign language phonology, but ...
Emilija Mustapić, Frane Malenica
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A two-way translation system of Chinese sign language based on computer vision [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 As the main means of communication for deaf people, sign language has a special grammatical order, so it is meaningful and valuable to develop a real-time translation system for sign language. In the research process, we added a TSM module to the lightweight neural network model for the large Chinese continuous sign language dataset .
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Sign, language, and gesture in the brain: Some comments [PDF]
, 2017 In contrast with two widely held and contradictory views – that sign languages of deaf people are “just gestures,” or that sign languages are “just like spoken languages” – the view from sign linguistics and developmental research in cognition presented ...
Campbell, R, Woll, B
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Handling Sign Language Data: The Impact of Modality
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years.
Josep Quer, Markus Steinbach
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