SignWriting->HamNoSys

[Honza]

Hello Valerie and Cherie,

ok I see. I will contact Penny directly.
thank you

Honza

On 15 June 2012 15:36, Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:

> SignWriting List
> June 15, 2012
>
> Hello Honza -
> It is not Cherie who is doing the project. Cherie informed our SignWriting
> List about Dr. Penny Boyes Braem's project in Switzerland. Thank you,
> Cherie, for informing us.
>
> The person you need to contact, is:
>
> Dr. Penny Boyes Braem
> boyesbraem at FZGRESEARCH.ORG
>
> Penny's message is below about the project, which was posted to the SLLING
> List.
>
> I do not know if Penny is on the SignWriting List any longer - If you are
> here, Penny, tell us more about the project - Sounds very interesting!
>
> So Honza, you may have to write to Penny privately… and it is amazing work
> you are doing in the Czech Republic - thank you as well for telling us of
> your project -
>
> Val ;-)
>
> --------
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:37 AM, Honza wrote:
>
> > Hello Cherie,
> >
> > yes on this I work few years with my colegues.
> > On this topic cooperate my Masaryk University in Brno and University
> > of West Bohemia in Plzeň (both Czech Republic).
> > We are trying to make script that will be capable to convert
> > SignWriting to HamNoSys and also HamNoSys to SignWriting.
> > We have already done conversion of handshapes. We only convert
> > hanshapes of Czech Sign Language.
> > We are already using this conversion in searching signs in our
> dictionary.
> >
> > Definitly I believe we can cooperate in further development, we have
> > still several issues to solve.
> >
> > Honza Fikejs,
> > Czech Republic
> >
> >
> > On 15 June 2012 04:01, Cherie Wren <cwterp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> >> From: Penny Boyes Braem <boyesbraem at FZGRESEARCH.ORG>
> >> To: SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:08 PM
> >> Subject: SignWriting->HamNoSys
> >>
> >> I and my colleague from the Institute for Computer Linguistics at the
> >> University of Zurich, Sarah Ebling, are planning a project to develop a
> >> script for the automatic conversion of SignWriting notations into
> HamNoSys
> >> notations for Swiss German Sign Language. We, like perhaps some of you,
> have
> >> over the years done notations in both systems and use both systems for
> >> different purposes.  We would like to be able to convert some signs only
> >> notated in one system to notations in the other system. We will be
> starting
> >> with a SW->HNS conversion script.
> >>
> >> To test this script, it would greatly help us to have examples of signs
> from
> >> other sign languages notated in both SW and HNS. Would any of you be
> >> interested in cooperating with us on this project and would have some
> >> dual-notated signs from your sign language that you could contribute to
> the
> >> project for script-testing purposes?  You would, of course, have access
> to
> >> any conversion scripts that would develop from this project.
> >>
> >> Thanks and greetings from us both,
> >>
> >> Penny  (Penny Boyes Braem, Center for Sign Language Research, Basel)
> >> and Sarah (Sarah Ebling, Institute for Computer Linguistics, University
> of
> >> Zürich)
> >>
> >> Dr. Penny Boyes Braem
> >> Forschungszentrum für Gebärdensprache (FZG) Basel
> >> Center for Sign Language Research, Basel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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