Aberdeen MT system

[Onno Crasborn]

Some progress in this domain has recently been made within two collaborative EU projects, SignSpeak and Dicta-Sign, where linguists and computer scientists worked together. Both ended early this year. Quite some information is available on the websites:

http://www.signspeak.eu
http://www.dictasign.eu

Where the former aimed at translation from SL video to written text of a spoken language, the latter addressed sign recognition and subsequent re-synthesis.

It is clear that sign language technology still has a long way to go, but one can imagine some applications of what is already possible right now, which is different from say 5-10 years ago.

Best regards,

Onno Crasborn


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Dr. O.A. Crasborn

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