The SignSpeak project will be the first step to approach sign language recognition and translation at a scientific level already reached in similar research fields such as automatic speech recognition or statistical machine translation of spoken languages. Deaf communities revolve around sign languages as they are their natural means of communication. Although deaf, hard of hearing and hearing signers can communicate without problems amongst themselves, there is a serious challenge for the deaf community in trying to integrate into educational, social and work environments. The overall goal of SignSpeak is to develop a new vision-based technology for recognizing and translating continuous sign language to text. New knowledge about the nature of sign language structure from the perspective of machine recognition of continuous sign language will allow a subsequent breakthrough in the development of a new vision-based technology for continuous sign language recognition and translation. Existing and new publicly available corpora will be used to evaluate the research progress throughout the whole project.
@inproceedings{dreuw:10001:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Dreuw, Philippe and Forster, Jens and Gweth, Yannick and Stein, Daniel and Ney, Hermann and Mart{\'i}nez Ruiz, Gregorio and Verges Llahi, Jaume and Crasborn, Onno and Ormel, Ellen and Du, Wei and Hoyoux, Thomas and Piater, Justus and Moya Lazaro, Jos{\'e} Miguel and Wheatley, Mark},
title = {{SignSpeak} - Understanding, Recognition, and Translation of Sign Languages},
pages = {65--72},
editor = {Dreuw, Philippe and Efthimiou, Eleni and Hanke, Thomas and Johnston, Trevor and Mart{\'i}nez Ruiz, Gregorio and Schembri, Adam},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2010} 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies},
maintitle = {7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2010)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Valletta, Malta},
day = {22--23},
month = may,
year = {2010},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/10001.pdf}
}
| Ormel, Ellen | Du, Wei | Hoyoux, Thomas | Piater, Justus | Moya Lazaro, José Miguel | Wheatley, Mark