Flemish Sign Language Dictionary online

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 19, 2004

Many CONGRATULATIONS to the Belgian Dictionary Team. Thank you for 
informing us. Your site looks really great! It is quite an impressive 
accomplishment.

I hope you enjoy the Lisbon software conference on May 30th!

Too bad I cannot go...But I can visit you all online! ;-)

Val ;-)

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On May 19, 2004, at 7:48 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> May 19, 2004
>
> A message from
> Mieke Van Herreweghe (Ghent University)
> mieke.vanherreweghe at ugent.be
>
> Dear Valerie and colleagues,
>   
> Yesterday the first Flemish Sign Language - Dutch / Dutch - Flemish 
> Sign Language dictionary was launched. It is an on-line basic 
> dictionary which contains over 2000 Dutch entries and over 6000 signs 
> from Flemish Sign Language (VGT) (including regional variants). The 
> signs can be read through SignWriting and can be seen as moving 
> pictures (although not all of the films are ready yet; they are being 
> added on a daily basis). You can search the dictionary in two 
> directions: from the Dutch written word or from the Flemish Sign 
> Language sign (with a search platform based on SignWriting). 
>  
> At the moment everything is still in Dutch and/or VGT, but information 
> in English will be added shortly. 
>  
> The website can be found at: http://gebaren.ugent.be and can be 
> accessed freely.
>  
>  
> The VGT Dictionary team:  
>  
> Kristof De Weerdt (Ghent University)
> Mieke Van Herreweghe (Ghent University)
> Katrien Van Mulders (Ghent University)
> Myriam Vermeerbergen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
> Jan Adriaenssens (University Antwerp)
> Steven Aerts (University Antwerp)
> Bart Braem (University Antwerp)
>
>
> Attached example Online Dictionary:

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