Announcing new list SO-QIWOA

[Angus B. Grieve-Smith]

        I am pleased to announce the formation of a new mailing list,
"so-qiwoa," dedicated to the discussion of computational sign
linguistics.  Its name is the word for "computer" in certain varieties
of American Sign Language, written in the Newkirk 1986 orthography.

        In recent years, more and more of the techniques of
computational linguistics have been applied to signed languages.
There are currently at least five projects related to sign synthesis,
and several others related to gesture and sign recognition.  Tentative
attempts have been made at machine translation applications.

        So-qiwoa is intended to be a forum where computational sign
linguists can compare notes and discuss techniques.  For the time
being, it is an open, unmoderated list.  To subscribe, send a message
to majordomo at s-leodm.unm.edu containing the text "subscribe so-qiwoa".

        If you have any questions, please address them to
owner-so-qiwoa at s-leodm.unm.edu.


                                -Angus B. Grieve-Smith
                                Linguistics Department
                                The University of New Mexico
                                grvsmth at unm.edu