The SignSpeak Project - Bridging the Gap Between Signers and Speakers

Dreuw, Philippe | Ney, Hermann | Martínez Ruiz, Gregorio | Crasborn, Onno | Piater, Justus | Moya Lazaro, José Miguel | Wheatley, Mark

Volume:: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010)
Venue:: Valletta, Malta
Date:: 17 to 23 May 2010
Pages:: 476–481
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
ACL ID:: L10-1238
ISBN:: 978-2-9517408-6-0

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Projects:: SignSpeak
Languages:: German Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, Dutch, English
Corpora:: Corpus NGT, RWTH-BOSTON-104, RWTH-BOSTON-400, RWTH-PHOENIX-Weather

Abstract

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.

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Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney, Gregorio Martínez Ruiz, Onno Crasborn, Justus Piater, José Miguel Moya Lazaro, Mark Wheatley. 2010. The SignSpeak Project - Bridging the Gap Between Signers and Speakers. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), pages 476–481, Valletta, Malta. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{dreuw-etal-2010-signspeak:lrec,
  author    = {Dreuw, Philippe and Ney, Hermann and Mart{\'i}nez Ruiz, Gregorio and Crasborn, Onno and Piater, Justus and Moya Lazaro, Jos{\'e} Miguel and Wheatley, Mark},
  title     = {The {SignSpeak} Project - Bridging the Gap Between Signers and Speakers},
  pages     = {476--481},
  editor    = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Choukri, Khalid and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios and Rosner, Mike and Tapias, Daniel},
  booktitle = {7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2010)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Valletta, Malta},
  day       = {17--23},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2010},
  isbn      = {978-2-9517408-6-0},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/346_Paper.pdf}
}