<div dir="ltr">Do you have any criteria about the provenance of the handwriting samples? I teach a linguistic anthropology course at Oberlin about Literacies. I spend one week teaching them about SW and having them produce short texts - we are having that class meeting later this month. These are hearing students who generally know little about sign languages - I introduce them to SW to help expand their notion of what can be written. Sometimes I ask them to write a simple ASL sample, but sometimes I have them write co-speech gestures. Would texts like these - produced by total novices, not necessarily of a SL - be useful? Because if so, I'm happy to share the batches I generate each time I teach this course. But I can imagine they might not be what you're looking for :)<br>
Best,<br>Erika<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Fabrizio Borgia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fabrizio.borgia@gmail.com" target="_blank">fabrizio.borgia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Dear All,<br></div>I'd like to take a moment to explain the work of my team (Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Computer Science Department - "Sapienza" University of Rome) in the latest few years.<br>
</div>We are working at a <b>Optical Glyph Recogition</b> (OGR) engine for SignWriting.<br><br></div>Well, OGR sounds very much like OCR (which is Optical Character Recognition) because they both share the same goal: <b>the conversion of images of text into characters</b>. In the OGR case, the characters are the glyphs.<br>
</div>Apart from the goal, OGR and OCR have very little in common. The design and the implementation of our application is somewhat different from the standard OCR design, because we are facing different problems, and different datasets.<br>
<br></div><div>We know that there's a huge amount of handwritten SW corpora, scattered around the world, and we believe that they carry an invaluable knowledge, both for the Deaf Community, and for the Research Community. Our goal is to make them digital, to <b>empower their diffusion</b>, and to <b>ensure a long-lasting existence</b> for them.<br>
</div><div><br></div>After a very, very thorough design phase, we are developing the OGR application (and, in confidence, we are about halfway to go) and <b>soon we will release a footage showing our software in action</b>.<br>
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<div><div><div><div><br></div><div>To make our OGR stronger, we need to test it with diffrent datasets (SW texts, pages, etc.) we need your help, dear SW list!<br></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>We need any kind of handwritten SW texts, in any digital image format.<br>
<br></b></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b><font>Optionally, we'd like them to be:</font><br></b></span></font><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><font><b>written in columns</b></font></span></li>
<li><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b><font>whithout any segmentation (annotation lines, squares, etc.) from one sign to the following one</font><br></b></span></font></li></ul></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><font color="#000000">Anyone can send us some material (even spare pages will DEFINITLEY do) or point us in the right direction?<br>
Thanks in advance</font> <font color="#000000">for your time<font size="4">, <font>from Rome!</font></font></font><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Fabrizio Borgia, M.D.<br>
<br></div>Ph.D. Student<br></div>Sapienza - Università di Roma <br>Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier<br><br></div><div>O&M SW Engineering Intern<br></div><div>SERCO S.p.A.<br></div><div><br><a href="mailto:fabrizio.borgia@gmail.com" target="_blank">fabrizio.borgia@gmail.com</a><br>
</div><a href="mailto:fabrizio.borgia@uniroma1.it" target="_blank">fabrizio.borgia@uniroma1.it</a><br></div><a href="mailto:fabrizio.borgia@serco.com" target="_blank">fabrizio.borgia@serco.com</a><br></div>
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