Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2010 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies
Venue:: Valletta, Malta
Date:: 22 and 23 May 2010
Pages:: 88–91
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
sign-lang ID:: 10003

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Abstract

The framework is that of Sign Language synthesis by virtual signers. In this paper, we present a sign generation system using a variety of input layers, separated on two sides: an anatomical side and a linguistic side. In a first part we suggest a way of implementing the flexibility required by Sign Languages into the system by using combinations of necessary and suficient constraints. The anatomical side of the input specifies all morphological and articulatory constraints that model the behaviour of a human skeleton, while the linguistic input specifies language constraints (lexical, grammatical, iconic...) that must be applied to the signer's body to utter the correct sign sequence. A second part explains how to combine all these parts of the input in a conjunction of constraints for each time frame of the animation. A point is made that conflicting constraints may be given but that they need be prioritised in order still to decide on acceptable solutions. A first idea of a global priority order is given to illustrate this issue.

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Michael Filhol, Maxime Delorme, Annelies Braffort. 2010. Combining constraint-based models for Sign Language synthesis. In Proceedings of the LREC2010 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies, pages 88–91, Valletta, Malta. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{filhol:10003:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Filhol, Michael and Delorme, Maxime and Braffort, Annelies},
  title     = {Combining constraint-based models for Sign Language synthesis},
  pages     = {88--91},
  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/10003.pdf}
}

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Combining constraint-based models for Sign Language synthesis

Filhol, Michael | Delorme, Maxime | Braffort, Annelies