query: computer assisted sign language teaching

[Asli Ozyurek]

 Dear all,
Can anyone   direct me to  a website or researchers who work  on    computer
assisted sign  language teaching technologies ?
Thanks a lot !!
Asli Ozyurek
Department  of psychology
Koc University
Istanbul
Turkey

"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" wrote:

>         SignTel (www.signtelinc.com) has put more information up on their
> web site -- see the FAQ page in particular.  It turns out there's no
> translation whatsoever involved -- it's just concatenative synthesis
> combined with a speech recognizer.  But they have an option that strips
> out all the grammatical content, 'cause you know, ASL users enjoy that.
> And they imply that subsequent versions will produce ASL, as though that's
> a minor add-on, like mail merge or something.
>
>         I have to say I'm genuinely disappointed.  I actually believed
> that they were really doing some kind of translation.  I should have known
> something was up when I emailed them and the guy said that they hadn't
> published anything in peer-reviewed journals because they wanted to patent
> the technology first.
>
>         What bugs me is that they found some people at the Texas School
> for the Deaf to go "wow!" and put it on their testimonials page.
> Apparently it's being discussed on a list in Colorado.  I wonder how many
> companies, schools and government agencies are going to cough up $4000 for
> it.
>
>         Another thing I noticed is that they got an endorsement from the
> "International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet."  This
> center apparently collects "best practices in areas related to disability
> and accessibility issues."  Maybe someone should tell them that any "best
> practice" relating to sign linguistics has to use a true sign language...
>
> --
>                                 -Angus B. Grieve-Smith
>                                 Linguistics Department
>                                 University of New Mexico
>                                 grvsmth at unm.edu