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Workshop Programme Workshop Programme 9:00 – 9:15 Opening greetings Oral session 9:15 – 9:45 Elena Pizzuto, Paolo Rossini, Tommaso Russo Representing Signed Languages in Written Form: Questions that Need to be Posed 9:45 – 10:15 Michael Filhol, Annelies Braffort A Sequential Approach to Lexical Sign Description 10:15 – 10:45 Alessio Di Renzo, Luca Lamano, Tommaso Lucioli, Barbara Pennacchi, Luca Ponzo Italian Sign Language (LIS): Can We Write it and Transcribe it with SignWriting? 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 – 12:00 Patrice Dalle High Level Models for Sign Language Analysis by a Vision System 12:00 – 12:20 Morteza Zahedi, Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Thomas Deselaers, Jan Bungeroth, Hermann Ney Continuous Sign Language Recognition – Approaches from Speech Recognition and Available Data Resources 12:30 – 13:00 Ignazio Infantino, Riccardo Rizzo, Salvatore Gaglio A Software System for Automatic Signed Italian Recognition 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Oral session 14:45 – 15:15 Brigitte Garcia The Methodological, Linguistic and Semiological Bases for the Elaboration of a Written Form of French Sign Language (LSF) 15:15 – 15:45 Cynthia Kellett Bidoli Glossary Compilation of LSP Including a Signed Language: a Corpus- based Approach 15:45 – 16:15 Gabriel Pereira Lopes Language Learning by Machines from Plain Raw Text 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break 17:00 – 19:00 Poster session Rúbia Medianeira Denardi, Paulo Fernando Blauth Menezes, Antônio C. R. Costa An Animator of Gestures Applied to Sign Languages Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Galini Sapountzaki Processing Linguistic Data for GSL Structure Representation Antônio C. R. Costa, Graçaliz P. Dimuro, Benjamin C. Bedregal Recognizing Hand Gestures Using a Fuzzy Rule-Based Method and Representing them with HamNoSys Guylhem Aznar, Patrice Dalle Analysis of the Different Methods to Encode SignWriting in Unicode Maria Mertzani Sign Language Learning through Asynchronous Computer Mediated Communication Thomas Hanke Towards a Corpus-based Approach to Sign Language Dictionaries Sandy Pleissner Translation of Natural Speech into Sign Language Based on Semantic Relations Annelies Braffort Articulatory Analysis of the Manual Parameters of the French Sign Language Conventional Signs Onno Crasborn, Han Sloetjes, Eric Auer, Peter Wittenburg Combining Video and Numeric Data in the Analysis of Sign Languages within the ELAN Annotation Software Maria Mertzani, Clark Denmark, Linda Day Forming Sign Language Learning Environments in Cyberspace Emilio Insolera, Maria Giuseppina Militano, Elena Radutzky, Alessandra Rossini Pilot Learning Strategies in Step with New Technologies: LIS and Italian in a Bilingual Multimedia Context ‘Tell Me a Dictionary Emanuela Cameracanna, Maria Luisa Franchi Metodo Vista – Teaching Sign Language in Italy II Workshop Organiser Chiara Vettori Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism EURAC research, Italy Workshop Programme Committee Chiara Vettori EURAC research, Italy Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa Escola de Informática - UCPel, Brazil Eleni Efthimiou Institute for Language and Speech Processing – ILSP, Greece Elena Pizzuto Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione - ISTC, Italy Elena Radutzky Mason Perkins Deafness Fund, Italy Marco Consolati ALBA s.c.s., Italy Onno Crasborn Dept. of Linguistics - Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherland Patrice Dalle IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France Ronice Müller de Quadros Centro de Ciências da Educação, UFSC – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Tania Di Mascio Department of Electric Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy III Table of Contents Elena Pizzuto, Paolo Rossini, Tommaso Russo Representing Signed Languages in Written Form: Questions that Need to be Posed........................1 Michael Filhol, Annelies Braffort A Sequential Approach to Lexical Sign Description...........................................................................7 Alessio Di Renzo, Luca Lamano, Tommaso Lucioli, Barbara Pennacchi, Luca Ponzo Italian Sign Language (LIS): Can We Write it and Transcribe it with SignWriting? ......................11 Patrice Dalle High Level Models for Sign Language Analysis by a Vision System................................................17 Morteza Zahedi, Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Thomas Deselaers, Jan Bungeroth, Hermann Ney Continuous Sign Language Recognition – Approaches from Speech Recognition and Available Data Resources ..........................................................................................................................................21 Ignazio Infantino, Riccardo Rizzo, Salvatore Gaglio A Software System for Automatic Signed Italian Recognition..........................................................25 Brigitte Garcia The Methodological, Linguistic and Semiological Bases for the Elaboration of a Written Form of French Sign Language (LSF)............................................................................................................31 Cynthia Kellett Bidoli Glossary Compilation of LSP Including a Signed Language: a Corpus-based Approach...............37 Rúbia Medianeira Denardi, Paulo Fernando Blauth Menezes, Antônio C. R. Costa An Animator of Gestures Applied to Sign Languages .................................................................... 43 Eleni Efthimiou, Stavroula-Evita Fotinea, Galini Sapountzaki Processing Linguistic Data for GSL Structure Representation...................................................... 49 IV Antônio C. R. Costa, Graçaliz P. Dimuro, Benjamin C. Bedregal Recognizing Hand Gestures Using a Fuzzy Rule-Based Method and Representing them with HamNoSys.........................................................................................................................................55 Guylhem Aznar, Patrice Dalle Analysis of the Different Methods to Encode SignWriting in Unicode.............................................59 Maria Mertzani Sign Language Learning through Asynchronous Computer Mediated Communication..................64 Thomas Hanke Towards a Corpus-based Approach to Sign Language Dictionaries ...............................................70 Sandy Pleissner Translation of Natural Speech into Sign Language Based on Semantic Relations ..........................74 Annelies Braffort Articulatory Analysis of the Manual Parameters of the French Sign Language Conventional Signs ...........................................................................................................................................................78 Onno Crasborn, Han Sloetjes, Eric Auer, Peter Wittenburg Combining Video and Numeric Data in the Analysis of Sign Languages within the ELAN Annotation Software..........................................................................................................................82 Maria Mertzani, Clark Denmark, Linda Day Forming Sign Language Learning Environments in Cyberspace.....................................................88 Emilio Insolera, Maria Giuseppina Militano, Elena Radutzky, Alessandra Rossini Pilot Learning Strategies in Step with New Technologies: LIS and Italian in a Bilingual Multimedia Context ‘Tell Me a Dictionary’.........................................................................................................92 Emanuela Cameracanna, Maria Luisa Franchi Metodo Vista – Teaching Sign Language in Italy.............................................................................96 V Author Index Auer, Eric..........................................................................................................................................82 Aznar, Guylhem................................................................................................................................59 Ballabriga, Clément ..........................................................................................................................59 Bedregal, Benjamin C.......................................................................................................................55 Blauth Menezes, Paulo Fernando......................................................................................................43 Braffort, Annelies..........................................................................................................................7, 78 Bungeroth, Jan ..................................................................................................................................21 Cameracanna, Emanuela...................................................................................................................96 Crasborn, Onno .................................................................................................................................82 da Rocha Costa, Antônio Carlos.................................................................................................43, 55 Dalle, Patrice...............................................................................................................................17, 59 Day, Linda.........................................................................................................................................88 Denardi, Rúbia Medianeira...............................................................................................................43 Denmark, Clark.................................................................................................................................88 Deselaers, Thomas ............................................................................................................................21
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