3D Modeling of the Mexican Sign Language for a Speech-To-Sign Language System
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Language Resources for Spanish - Spanish Sign Language (LSE) Translation
Language Resources for Spanish - Spanish Sign Language (LSE) translation Rubén San-Segundo 1, Verónica López 1, Raquel Martín 1, David Sánchez 2, Adolfo García 2 1Grupo de Tecnología del Habla-Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2Fundación CNSE Abstract This paper describes the development of a Spanish-Spanish Sign Language (LSE) translation system. Firstly, it describes the first Spanish-Spanish Sign Language (LSE) parallel corpus focused on two specific domains: the renewal of the Identity Document and Driver’s License. This corpus includes more than 4,000 Spanish sentences (in these domains), their LSE translation and a video for each LSE sentence with the sign language representation. This corpus also contains more than 700 sign descriptions in several sign-writing specifications. The translation system developed with this corpus consists of two modules: a Spanish into LSE translation module that is composed of a speech recognizer (for decoding the spoken utterance into a word sequence), a natural language translator (for converting a word sequence into a sequence of signs) and a 3D avatar animation module (for playing back the signs). The second module is a Spanish generator from LSE made up of a visual interface (for specifying a sequence of signs in sign-writing), a language translator (for generating the sequence of words in Spanish) and a text to speech converter. For each language translation, the system uses three technologies: an example-based strategy, a rule-based translation method and a statistical translator. collected -
Providing Accessibility to Hearing-Disabled by a Basque to Sign Language Translation System
Providing Accessibility to Hearing-disabled by a Basque to Sign Language Translation System María del Puy Carretero, Miren Urteaga, Aitor Ardanza, Mikel Eizagirre, Sara García and David Oyarzun Vicomtech-IK4 Research Center, P. Mikeletegi, 57, 20009 San Sebastián, Spain Keywords: Virtual Character, Automatic Translation, Sign Language, LSE, Natural Language Processing. Abstract: Translation between spoken languages and Sign Languages is especially weak regarding minority languages; hence, audiovisual material in these languages is usually out of reach for people with a hearing impairment. This paper presents a domain-specific Basque text to Spanish Sign Language (LSE) translation system. It has a modular architecture with (1) a text-to-Sign Language translation module using a Rule- Based translation approach, (2) a gesture capture system combining two motion capture system to create an internal (3) sign dictionary, (4) an animation engine and a (5) rendering module. The result of the translation is performed by a virtual interpreter that executes the concatenation of the signs according to the grammatical rules in LSE; for a better LSE interpretation, its face and body expressions change according to the emotion to be expressed. A first prototype has been tested by LSE experts with preliminary satisfactory results. 1 INTRODUCTION people are unable to read texts and/or communicate with others by writing. This paper presents a modular platform to translate . Lipreading. Some deaf people can read lips, Basque into LSE. The modularity of the platform but it is not a general ability. Furthermore, allows the input to be audio or text depending on the lipreading alone cannot sufficiently support needs and the available technology of each speech development because visual application case. -
The Deaf of Spain
Profile Year: Unknown People and Language Detail Report Language Name: Spanish Sign Language ISO Language Code: ssp The Deaf of Spain The Spanish Sign Language Community The Deaf community (capital D) is the group of deaf people who identify and communicate with each other using their own sign language. Spanish Sign Language is a language totally different from simply signing or spelling Spanish. Nearly all Deaf Spaniards can read some written Spanish and communicate to a limited degree by lip reading. Their ability to read Spanish, how- ever, is very limited. Only ten percent of deaf people have deaf parents; few deaf children can communicate adequately with their hearing parents. Instead, deaf people congregate with each other at "associations" in urban centers. These "associations" are open most nights and provide full programs of social, cultural, sporting and support services so that most socialization takes place with other Deaf in these settings. Spanish Deaf are nominally Catholic but most have no interest in Primary Religion: pursuing an understanding of spiritual things. There are no Unknown ________________________________________________________ churches just for Deaf. Two groups of Deaf meet regularly as Disciples (Matt 28:19): part of a hearing church and there are Catholic services with Unknown signing in most of the larger population centers. ________________________________________________________ Churches: 2 _________________________________________________________ Scripture Status (Matt 28:20): No Scripture ________________________________________________________ Population (date): 102,000 ________________________________________________________ The Deaf of Spain______________________________________________________ Have They Heard The Gospel Number of Missionaries Working 2 Number of Churches 2 Any Hindrance to Scripture Distribution? Scripture in video format is extremely expensive and impractical for daily use. -
WASLI 2011 Conference Proceedings
WORLD ASSOCIATION OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS 2011 Conference Proceedings Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters Durban, South Africa, July 14-16, 2011 Edited by Brendan Costello, Mary Thumann, and Risa Shaw WASLI 2011 Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-0-646-91543-2 WASLI 2011 Conference Proceedings World Association of Sign Language Interpreters Introduction .......................................................................................................... 1! Reflections on Adventures with WASLI .............................................................. 5! Nicole Montagna! Working together to support the Solomon Islands: An emerging Deaf and interpreting community ..................................................................................... 12! Angela Murray! Joneti Rokotuibau! A Glimpse at the development of Sign Language Interpretation in Uganda . 24! Awoii Patrick Micheal! Developing Deaf Interpreting Training and Assessment Frameworks .......... 36! Paul Bartlett! Stuart Anderson! Collaboration Among Interpreters: A Worldwide Communication Network .. 47! Jordi Ferré! Meliton Bustinza! Response from WASLI President ...................................................................... 52! Deb Russell! The “teacher-interpreter paradox”: exploring the roles of post-secondary educational South African Sign Language interpreters .................................. 54! Odette Swift Legal Interpreting: A North American Survey ................................................ -
Typology of Signed Languages: Differentiation Through Kinship Terminology Erin Wilkinson
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of New Mexico University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Linguistics ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations 7-1-2009 Typology of Signed Languages: Differentiation through Kinship Terminology Erin Wilkinson Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ling_etds Recommended Citation Wilkinson, Erin. "Typology of Signed Languages: Differentiation through Kinship Terminology." (2009). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ling_etds/40 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Linguistics ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TYPOLOGY OF SIGNED LANGUAGES: DIFFERENTIATION THROUGH KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY BY ERIN LAINE WILKINSON B.A., Language Studies, Wellesley College, 1999 M.A., Linguistics, Gallaudet University, 2001 DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Linguistics The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico August, 2009 ©2009, Erin Laine Wilkinson ALL RIGHTS RESERVED iii DEDICATION To my mother iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many thanks to Barbara Pennacchi for kick starting me on my dissertation by giving me a room at her house, cooking me dinner, and making Italian coffee in Rome during November 2007. Your endless support, patience, and thoughtful discussions are gratefully taken into my heart, and I truly appreciate what you have done for me. I heartily acknowledge Dr. William Croft, my advisor, for continuing to encourage me through the long number of months writing and rewriting these chapters. -
Sign Languages in Contact
INTRO_Sign_Pozos_Gaul_193027 7/30/07 11:19 AM Page 1 Editor’s Introduction: Outlining Considerations for the Study of Signed Language Contact David Quinto-Pozos To my knowledge, this volume represents the first book-length collec- tion of various accounts of contact between sign languages, and this brings with it excitement as well as the realization of challenges that lie ahead.1 As many researchers who are interested in language contact might suggest, it is exciting because these chapters contribute to our un- derstanding of the structural and social aspects of contact and how such contact affects language in the visual-gestural modality. They provide us with information about Deaf communities throughout the world, as well as language data that speak to the ways in which contact is manifested in those communities. This global perspective allows us to examine con- tact situations in search of commonalties and recurring patterns. It also enables us to see how some outcomes of contact between sign languages might or might not fit the general patterns of contact that have been demonstrated for spoken languages. Perhaps as a way to balance the ex- citement about this topic, the sobering truth is that we know so little about contact between sign languages. As a result, we are faced with the task of documenting examples of such contact and the challenge of ex- amining the effects of visual meaning creation on linguistic structures that occur in these contact situations. By focusing on this area of inquiry, we stand to gain much knowledge about how language works. The study of language contact among signed languages forces us to carefully consider how the visual-gestural modality of human com- munication influences language birth, development, change, and de- cay or loss from disuse. -
A Multi-Source Database for Spanish Sign Language Recognition
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, pages 45–52 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020), Marseille, 11–16 May 2020 c European Language Resources Association (ELRA), licensed under CC-BY-NC LSE_UVIGO: A Multi-source Database for Spanish Sign Language Recognition Laura Docío-Fernández1, José Luis Alba-Castro1, Soledad Torres-Guijarro1, Eduardo Rodríguez-Banga1, Manuel Rey-Area1, Ania Pérez-Pérez1, Sonia Rico-Alonso2, Carmen García-Mateo1 1atlanTTic Research Center for Telecommunication Technologies, 2Ramón Piñeiro Centre for Research in Humanities 1Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación. Universidade de Vigo, 2Xunta de Galicia [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract This paper presents LSE_UVIGO, a multi-source database designed to foster research on Sign Language Recognition. It is being recorded and compiled for Spanish Sign Language (LSE acronym in Spanish) and contains also spoken Galician language, so it is very well fitted to research on these languages, but also quite useful for fundamental research in any other sign language. LSE_UVIGO is composed of two datasets: LSE_Lex40_UVIGO, a multi-sensor and multi-signer dataset acquired from scratch, designed as an incremental dataset, both in complexity of the visual content and in the variety of signers. It contains static and co-articulated sign recordings, fingerspelled and gloss-based isolated words, and sentences. Its acquisition is done in a controlled lab environment in order to obtain good quality videos with sharp video frames and RGB and depth information, making them suitable to try different approaches to automatic recognition. -
LSE-Sign: a Lexical Database for Spanish Sign Language
Behav Res DOI 10.3758/s13428-014-0560-1 LSE-Sign: A lexical database for Spanish Sign Language Eva Gutierrez-Sigut & Brendan Costello & Cristina Baus & Manuel Carreiras # Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2015 Abstract The LSE-Sign database is a free online tool for processing are governed by similar or different cognitive mech- selecting Spanish Sign Language stimulus materials to be anisms and underpinned by similar or different neuroanatomi- used in experiments. It contains 2,400 individual signs taken cal substrates. Studies have looked into various aspects of pro- from a recent standardized LSE dictionary, and a further 2,700 cessing in signed languages and these findings so far have related nonsigns. Each entry is coded for a wide range of shown that lexical access in signed languages is broadly affect- grammatical, phonological, and articulatory information, in- ed by similar features to those in spoken languages (for an cluding handshape, location, movement, and non-manual el- overview see Carreiras, 2010). Previous work has confirmed ements. The database is accessible via a graphically based the fundamental distinction between form and meaning through search facility which is highly flexible both in terms of the Btip of the finger^ experiences (Thompson, Emmorey, & search options available and the way the results are displayed. Gollan, 2005), the role of morphological complexity LSE-Sign is available at the following website: http://www. (Emmorey & Corina, 1990) and of phonological parameters bcbl.eu/databases/lse/. (Gutiérrez, Müller, Baus, & Carreiras, 2012), semantic interfer- ence effects (Baus, Gutiérrez-Sigut, Quer, & Carreiras, 2008), Keywords Sign language . Lexical database . Spanish Sign familiarity and phonological neighborhood (Carreiras, Gutiér- Language(LSElenguadesignosespañola) .Stimulusmaterial rez-Sigut, Baquero, & Corina, 2008), and cross-language inter- actions in bimodal bilinguals (Kubus, Villwock, Morford, & Rathmann, 2014; Morford, Kroll, Piñar, & Wilkinson, 2014; Morford, Wilkinson, Villwock, Piñar, & Kroll, 2011). -
1 Two Languages at Hand – Code-Switching in Bilingual Deaf
Article Two languages at hand: Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers Zeshan, Ulrike and Panda, Sibaji Available at http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/14262/ Zeshan, Ulrike ORCID: 0000-0002-8438-3701 and Panda, Sibaji (2015) Two languages at hand: Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers. Sign Language & Linguistics, 18 (1). pp. 90-131. ISSN 1387-9316 It is advisable to refer to the publisher’s version if you intend to cite from the work. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sll.18.1.03zes For more information about UCLan’s research in this area go to http://www.uclan.ac.uk/researchgroups/ and search for <name of research Group>. For information about Research generally at UCLan please go to http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/ All outputs in CLoK are protected by Intellectual Property Rights law, including Copyright law. Copyright, IPR and Moral Rights for the works on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Terms and conditions for use of this material are defined in the policies page. CLoK Central Lancashire online Knowledge www.clok.uclan.ac.uk Two languages at hand – Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers Ulrike Zeshan & Sibaji Panda, International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK Abstract This article explores patterns of co-use of two sign languages in casual conversational data from four deaf bilinguals, who are fluent in Indian Sign Language (ISL) and Burundi Sign Language (BuSL). We investigate the contributions that both sign languages make to these conversations at lexical, clause, and discourse level, including a distinction between signs from closed grammatical classes and open lexical classes. -
Pronouns in Mexican Sign Language
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session Volume 39 Article 4 1995 Pronouns in Mexican Sign Language Marilyn Plumlee SIL-UND Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers Part of the Linguistics Commons Recommended Citation Plumlee, Marilyn (1995) "Pronouns in Mexican Sign Language," Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session: Vol. 39 , Article 4. DOI: 10.31356/silwp.vol39.04 Available at: https://commons.und.edu/sil-work-papers/vol39/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UND Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session by an authorized editor of UND Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Pronouns in Mexican Sign Language Marilyn Plumlee Pronouns in Mexican Sign Language (MSL) can be divided into two distinct classes: the manual pronouns, formed by configurations and movements of the hand, and the non manual pronouns, formed by means of eye movements and body shifts which carry linguistic content. Within each class, several types of pronouns are found. This paper discusses the morphology of various types within each class and provides examples which illustrate their use in MSL discourse. MSL speakers constitute a linguistic minority who are in frequent contact with a majority group using Spanish;· -the language of-higher prestige in the society at large . .An additional focus of this paper is thus the identification ofthe morphological and syntactic features of MSL pronouns which have resulted from extensive contact with the Spanish language. -
A Comparative Study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages
Josefina Safar A comparative study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages A comparative study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages Maya Yucatec of study A comparative Josefina Safar ISBN 978-91-7911-298-1 Department of Linguistics Doctoral Thesis in Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden 2020 A comparative study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages Josefina Safar Academic dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics at Stockholm University to be publicly defended on Friday 30 October 2020 at 09.00 in hörsal 11, hus F, Universitetsvägen 10 F, digitally via conference (Zoom), public link at department https://www.ling.su.se/ Abstract In my dissertation, I focus on the documentation and comparison of indigenous sign languages in Yucatán, Mexico. I conducted fieldwork in four Yucatec Maya communities with a high incidence of deafness. Because deaf people born into these villages have never had access to an established sign language, they have developed their own local sign languages to communicate with each other and their hearing relatives. Yucatec Maya Sign Languages (YMSLs) are young languages that have emerged over the past decades. The sign languages in the four communities are historically unrelated, but their shared cultural background and the influence of co-speech gestures used by hearing speakers of Yucatec Maya lead to striking similarities in their lexicon and grammar. At the same time, YMSLs display a high degree of variation related to sociolinguistic factors, such as family membership, age, education or language acquisition from deaf adults. In my dissertation, I argue that we can use the phenomenon of variation in young, micro-community sign languages as a window to find out how linguistic conventions are established and which sociolinguistic variables are relevant for shaping sign language structures. -
Sign Languages
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