In this paper we present the creation of dynamic linguistic resources of Greek Sign Language (GSL). The resources will feed the development of an educational multitask platform within the SYNENNOESE project for the teaching of and in GSL. The platform combines avatar and animation technologies for the production of sign sequences/streams, exploiting digital linguistic resources of both lexicon and grammar of GSL. In SYNENNOESE, the input is written Greek text, which is then transformed into GSL and appears animated on screen. A syntactic parser decodes the structural patterns of written Greek and matches them into equivalent patterns in GSL, which are then signed by a virtual human. The adopted notation system for the lexical database is HamNoSys (Hamburg Notation System). For the implementation of the digital signer tool, the signer’s synthetic movement follows MPEG-4 standard and frame H-Anim with the use of VRML language.
@inproceedings{sapountzaki:04004:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Sapountzaki, Galini and Efthimiou, Eleni and Karpouzis, Costas and Kourbetis, Vassilis},
title = {Open-ended Resources in {Greek} {Sign} {Language}: Development of an e-Learning Platform},
pages = {13--19},
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/04004.pdf}
}
| Karpouzis, Costas | Kourbetis, Vassilis