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First Steps Towards a Signing Avatar for Railway Travel Announcements in the Netherlands

Van Gemert, Britt | Cokart, Richard | Esselink, Lyke | De Meulder, Maartje | Sijm, Nienke | Roelofsen, Floris

Volume:: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives
Venue:: Marseille, France
Date:: 24 June 2022
Pages:: 109–116
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
ACL ID:: 2022.sltat-1.17
ISBN:: 979-10-95546-82-5

Content Categories

Languages:: Sign Language of the Netherlands
Avatars:: JASigning
Writing Systems:: SAMPA, SiGML

Abstract

This paper presents first steps towards a sign language avatar for communicating railway travel announcements in Dutch Sign Language. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it demonstrates effective ways to employ co-design and focus group methods in the context of developing sign language technology, and presents several concrete findings and results obtained through co-design and focus group sessions which have not only led to improvements of our own prototype but may also inform the development of signing avatars for other languages and in other application domains.

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@inproceedings{vangemert:70017:sltat:lrec,
  author    = {Van Gemert, Britt and Cokart, Richard and Esselink, Lyke and De Meulder, Maartje and Sijm, Nienke and Roelofsen, Floris},
  title     = {First Steps Towards a Signing Avatar for Railway Travel Announcements in the {Netherlands}},
  pages     = {109--116},
  editor    = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and McDonald, John C. and Shterionov, Dimitar and Wolfe, Rosalee},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology: The Junction of the Visual and the Textual: Challenges and Perspectives},
  maintitle = {13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2022)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Marseille, France},
  day       = {24},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2022},
  isbn      = {979-10-95546-82-5},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/sltat/pdf/2022.sltat-1.17}
}

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