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The Workshop Programme Sunday, May 30th 2004 Invited talks 9:00 – 9:30 Thomas Hanke HamNoSys – Representing Sign Language Data in Language Resources and Language Processing Contexts 9:30 – 10:00 Carol Neidle, Robert G. Lee Corpus Annotation, SignStream 10:00 – 10:30 Richard Gleaves, Valerie Sutton SignWriter 10:30 – 11:00 Break 11:00 – 12:30 Oral presentations (I session) 11:00 – 11:30 Galini Sapountzaki, Eleni Efthimiou, Costas Karpouzis, Vassilis Kourbetis Open-ended Resources in Greek Sign Language: Development of an e- Learning Platform 11:30 – 12:00 Onno Crasborn, Els van der Kooij, Daan Broeder, Hennie Brugman Sharing sign language corpora online: proposals for transcription and metadata categories 12:00 – 12:30 Matt Huenerfauth Spatial Representation of Classifier Predicates for Machine Translation into American Sign Language 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Oral presentations (II session) 14:00 – 14:30 Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, Juliano Baldez de Freitas A Sign Matching Technique to Support Searches in Sign Language Texts 14:30 – 15:00 Angel Herrero A Practical Writing System for Sign Languages 15:00 – 15:30 Maria Papadogiorgaki, Nikos Grammalidis, Nikos Sarris, Michael G. Strintzis Synthesis of Virtual Reality Animations from SWML using MPEG-4 Body Animation Parameters 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break I 16:00 – 18:00 Poster session Eleni Efthimiou, Anna Vacalopoulou, Stavroula Evita Fotinea, Gregory Steinhauer Multipurpose Design and Creation of GSL Dictionaries Chiara Vettori, Oliver Streiter, Judith Knapp From Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to Sign Language Processing: the Design of E-LIS, an Electronic Bilingual Dictionary of Italian Sign Language and Italian Rubén Nogueira, Jose M. Martínez 19th Century Signs in the Online Spanish Sign Language Library: the Historical Dictionary Project Elana Ochse A language via two others: learning English through LIS Ingvild Roald Making Dictionaries of Technical Signs: from Paper and Glue through SW- DOS to SignBank Steven Aerts, Bart Braem, Katrien Van Mulders, Kristof De Weerdt Searching SignWriting Signs Inge Zwitserlood, Doeko Hekstra Sign Printing System – SignPS Boris Lenseigne, Frédérick Gianni, Patrice Dalle A New Gesture Representation for Sign Language Analysis Jose L. Hernandez – Rebollar Phonetic Model for Automatic Recognition of Hand Gestures Daniel Thomas Ulrich Noelpp Development of a New „SignWriter“ Program Ralph Elliott, John Glauert, Vince Jennings, Richard Kennaway An Overview of the SiGML Notation and SiGMLSigning Software System Jan Bungeroth, Hermann Ney Statistical Sign Language Translation Guylhem Aznar, Patrice Dalle Computer Support for SignWriting Written Form of Sign Language Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Changshui Yang, Dalong Jiang, Cunbao Ge Chinese Sign Language Synthesis and Its Applications Paola Laterza, Claudio Baj Progetto e-LIS@ II Workshop Organisers - Oliver Streiter, Research Area “Language and Law” - European Academy of Bolzano, Italy - Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Escola de Informática - Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil - Christian Retoré, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France - Chiara Vettori, Research Area “Language and Law” - European Academy of Bolzano, Italy Workshop Programme Committee - Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Escola de Informática - Universidade Católica de Pelotas, Brazil - Carol Neidle, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures - Boston University, Boston MA - Chiara Vettori, Research Area “Language and Law” - European Academy of Bolzano, Italy - Christian Retoré, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, France - Eva Safar, School of Computing Sciences - University of East Anglia, Norwich, England - Ian Marshall, School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Englan - Marco Consolati, Cooperativa Alba, Torino, Italy - Oliver Streiter, Research Area “Language and Law” - European Academy of Bolzano, Italy - Patrice Dalle, Équipe "Traitement et Compréhension d'Images", IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier, France III Table of Contents Preface .................................................................................................................................................i Thomas Hanke HamNoSys – Representing Sign Language Data in Language Resources and Language Processing Contexts...............................................................................................................................................1 Richard Gleaves, Valerie Sutton SignWriter ...........................................................................................................................................7 Galini Sapountzaki, Eleni Efthimiou, Costas Karpouzis, Vassilis Kourbetis Open-ended Resources in Greek Sign Language: Development of an e-Learning Platform ...........13 Onno Crasborn, Els van der Kooij, Daan Broeder, Hennie Brugman Sharing sign language corpora online: proposals for transcription and metadata categories .......20 Matt Huenerfauth Spatial Representation of Classifier Predicates for Machine Translation into American Sign Language...........................................................................................................................................24 Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, Juliano Baldez de Freitas A Sign Matching Technique to Support Searches in Sign Language Texts .....................................32 Angel Herrero A Practical Writing System for Sign Languages...............................................................................37 Maria Papadogiorgaki, Nikos Grammalidis, Nikos Sarris, Michael G. Strintzis Synthesis of Virtual Reality Animations from SWML using MPEG-4 Body Animation Parameters........................................................................................................................................43 Eleni Efthimiou, Anna Vacalopoulou, Stavroula Evita Fotinea, Gregory Steinhauer Multipurpose Design and Creation of GSL Dictionaries .................................................................51 Chiara Vettori, Oliver Streiter, Judith Knapp From Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) to Sign Language Processing: the Design of E-LIS, an Electronic Bilingual Dictionary of Italian Sign Language and Italian............................59 IV Rubén Nogueira, Jose M. Martínez 19th Century Signs in the Online Spanish Sign Language Library:the Historical Dictionary Project ...........................................................................................................................................................63 Elana Ochse A language via two others: learning English through LIS ...............................................................68 Ingvild Roald Making Dictionaries of Technical Signs: from Paper and Glue through SW-DOS to SignBank.....75 Steven Aerts, Bart Braem, Katrien Van Mulders, Kristof De Weerdt Searching SignWriting Signs ............................................................................................................79 Inge Zwitserlood, Doeko Hekstra Sign Printing System – SignPS..........................................................................................................82 Boris Lenseigne, Frédérick Gianni, Patrice Dalle A New Gesture Representation for Sign Language Analysis............................................................85 Jose L. Hernandez - Rebollar Phonetic Model for Automatic Recognition of Hand Gestures.........................................................91 Daniel Thomas Ulrich Noelpp Development of a New „SignWriter“ Program................................................................................95 Ralph Elliott, John Glauert, Vince Jennings, Richard Kennaway An Overview of the SiGML Notation and SiGMLSigning Software System .....................................98 Jan Bungeroth, Hermann Ney Statistical Sign Language Translation............................................................................................105 Guylhem Aznar, Patrice Dalle Computer Support for SignWriting Written Form of Sign Language.............................................109 Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Changshui Yang, Dalong Jiang, Cunbao Ge Chinese Sign Language Synthesis and Its Applications..................................................................111 Paola Laterza, Claudio Baj Progetto e-LIS@ .............................................................................................................................113 V Author Index Aerts, Steven ........................................................................................................................................79 Aznar, Guylhem.................................................................................................................................109 Baj, Claudio .......................................................................................................................................113 Baldez de Freitas, Juliano ....................................................................................................................32 Braem, Bart ..........................................................................................................................................79 Broeder, Daan ......................................................................................................................................20 Brugman, Hennie .................................................................................................................................20
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