Resource production of written forms of Sign Languages by a user-centered editor, SWift (SignWriting improved fast transcriber)

Borgia, Fabrizio | Bianchini, Claudia S. | Dalle, Patrice | De Marsico, Maria

Volume:: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012)
Venue:: Istanbul, Turkey
Date:: 21 to 27 May 2012
Pages:: 3779–3784
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC
ACL ID:: L12-1210
ISBN:: 978-2-9517408-7-7

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Writing Systems:: SignWriting

Abstract

The SignWriting improved fast transcriber (SWift), presented in this paper, is an advanced editor for computer-aided writing and transcribing of any Sign Language (SL) using the SignWriting (SW). The application is an editor which allows composing and saving desired signs using the SW elementary components, called “glyphs”. These make up a sort of alphabet, which does not depend on the national Sign Language and which codes the basic components of any sign. The user is guided through a fully automated procedure making the composition process fast and intuitive. SWift pursues the goal of helping to break down the “electronic” barriers that keep deaf people away from the web, and at the same time to support linguistic research about Sign Languages features. For this reason it has been designed with a special attention to deaf user needs, and to general usability issues. The editor has been developed in a modular way, so it can be integrated everywhere the use of the SW as an alternative to written “verbal” language may be advisable.

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Fabrizio Borgia, Claudia S. Bianchini, Patrice Dalle, Maria De Marsico. 2012. Resource production of written forms of Sign Languages by a user-centered editor, SWift (SignWriting improved fast transcriber). In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), pages 3779–3784, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{borgia-etal-2012-resource:lrec,
  author    = {Borgia, Fabrizio and Bianchini, Claudia S. and Dalle, Patrice and De Marsico, Maria},
  title     = {Resource production of written forms of Sign Languages by a user-centered editor, {SW}ift ({S}ign{W}riting improved fast transcriber)},
  pages     = {3779--3784},
  editor    = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Choukri, Khalid and Declerck, Thierry and Do{\u g}an, Mehmet U{\u g}ur and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Moreno, Asuncion and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios},
  booktitle = {8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2012)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Istanbul, Turkey},
  day       = {21--27},
  month     = may,
  year      = {2012},
  isbn      = {978-2-9517408-7-7},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/404_Paper.pdf}
}