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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Robert,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our team has been working with Guilherme Lourenço at <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
Universidade Federal de Minas on evaluating productions of Libras via our system at DePaul. Since the other two systems are available commercially, maybe Guilherme could modify his testing protocol slightly to encorporate them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Guilherme: What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rosalee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>From:</b> linguists interested in signed languages [mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, Robert<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 14, 2016 8:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> signing avatar apps<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">Are there any researchers on here who are working on Libras? I have stumbled across two tools (see below) for translating the language pair Portuguese
– Libras. As a researcher with no background in either language but with a keen interest in sign language generation and Sign language linguistics, I am interested to see how these tools perform. English publications on both products seem to be thin on the
ground. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">Both of these products are available commercially and can be found through the links below:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">Hand talk (mobile app and website plugin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><a href="http://www.handtalk.me/"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;background:white">http://www.handtalk.me/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;background:white">
<span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">Prodeaf (mobile app and website plugin)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><a href="http://www.weblibras.com.br/"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;background:white">http://www.weblibras.com.br/</span></a><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;background:white">
& </span><a href="http://prodeaf.net/en-us"><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;background:white">http://prodeaf.net/en-us</span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;background:white">
<span lang="EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span></i><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;background:white">This product was scheduled to be demonstrated at SLTAT 2015 but as far as I remember, the presenters could not
attend. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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</span>i.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;background:white">Amarim, M., Kimura, R., & Fernandes, J. 2015.
</span></i><i><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;background:white">ProDeaf – 3D avatar based app for translation from Portuguese to Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology
(SLTAT </span></i><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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