<html><body><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>A colleague at the HSE (Higher School of Economics) in Moscow is looking for sign language specialists to participate in a project. Please contact them directly (contact info below).<br></div><blockquote><div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Dear Colleagues,</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">We are searching for specialist in syntax/grammar structures of American/Russian Sign Languages for participating in group project with the students of Computer Science Department (HSE, Moscow, Russia). We aim to develop AR application for bi-directional Text - Sign Language translation using possibilities of modern deep neural networks, allowing us to recognise signs with respect to different modalities, including action recognitons, emotions, hand and human pose tracking, etc. </span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Now, we need a consultant from linguists who could help us with the following tasks:</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">- consult on grammars of sign languages, sign split methods in video sequence and formulate tasks for translation model;</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">- consult on sign modalities and word contexts;</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">- test the performance of recognition and visualization modules based on incorporating modalities of signs;</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">- be available to contact deaf community for possible video dictionary enrichment and evaluation of our approaches.</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">We work in Scrum model, so weekly participation in Sprint task assignments and discussion of the progress is much appreciated.</span><br style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><div><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Also, any methodical works containing most common grammar and syntax rules for ASL/RSL will be appreciated.</span> </div><br><div><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: #000000;" color="#000000"><span style="font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'segoe ui', helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Contact: Ilya Makarov, <span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT5911_ZmEmailObjectHandler"><a href="mailto:iamakarov@hse.ru" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:iamakarov@hse.ru">iamakarov@hse.ru</a></span></span> </span></div></div></blockquote><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__">-- <br>Brendan Costello<br>Postdoctoral researcher BCBL<br>www.bcbl.eu<br><br>Legal disclaimer/Aviso legal/Lege-oharra: www.bcbl.eu/legal-disclaimer</div></div></body></html>