A Sign Matching Technique to Support Searches in Sign Language Texts

Costa, Antônio Carlos da Rocha | Dimuro, Graçaliz Pereira | Baldez de Freitas, Juliano

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2004 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication
Venue:: Lisbon, Portugal
Date:: 30 May 2004
Pages:: 32–36
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:: 04007

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Languages:: Libras
Writing Systems:: SignWriting

Abstract

This paper presents a technique for matching two signs written in the SignWriting system. We have defined such technique to support procedures for searching in sign language texts that were written in that writing system. Given the graphical nature of SignWriting, a graphical pattern matching method is needed, which can deal in controlled ways with the small graphical variations writers can introduce in the graphical forms of the signs, when they write them. The technique we present builds on a so-called degree of graphical similarity between signs, allowing for a sort of “fuzzy” graphical pattern matching procedure for written signs.

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Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, Juliano Baldez de Freitas. 2004. A Sign Matching Technique to Support Searches in Sign Language Texts. In Proceedings of the LREC2004 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From SignWriting to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication, pages 32–36, Lisbon, Portugal. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{costa:04007:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Costa, Ant{\^o}nio Carlos da Rocha and Dimuro, Gra{\c c}aliz Pereira and Baldez de Freitas, Juliano},
  title     = {A Sign Matching Technique to Support Searches in Sign Language Texts},
  pages     = {32--36},
  editor    = {Streiter, Oliver and Vettori, Chiara},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2004} Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From {SignWriting} to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication},
  maintitle = {4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2004)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Lisbon, Portugal},
  day       = {30},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2004},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/04007.pdf}
}