[Sw-l] Proposal to complement the International Alphabet of SignWriting by Valerie Sutton and Adam Frost

Tue Apr 28 15:45:13 UTC 2020

Link to access the Public Consultation platform:

https://doity.com.br/registro-das-configuracoes-de-mao-da-libras

Link to access the presentation video accessible in Libras, Portuguese and
English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ccb1-ONsU

Link to access the pdf books:

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs13/sw1242_BR_INVENTARIO_DAS_CM_ELS_SW_Prof_Rubens_Almeida_04252020.pdf

https://www.signwriting.org/archive/docs10/sw0935_SignWriting_Hand_Symbols_ISWA2010_Sutton_Frost_2014.pdf

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The goals of the present research are to investigate, share, collect and
register the Handshapes (HS) of the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) to the
modality Writing of LIBRAS by the system SignWriting. It is about a
proposal to complement the International Alphabet of SignWriting proposed
by Valerie Sutton and Adam Frost in 2010.

This initiative originated from the need to remedy the lack of many
graphemes (symbols) of Writing of LIBRAS-SignWriting, referring to LIBRAS’
Handshapes (HS) in the main software of textual production, transcription,
and registration of LIBRA’s written form by the SignWriting system, such as
SignPuddle and SignMaker software, among others developed by the Programmer
and System Analyst Steve Slevinsky. This research is exceptionally relevant
for the deaf Brazilian community because the majority of published works
produced in LIBRAS’ written modality for the deaf public are developed
through a computational system. That means, specific software is used that
allows textual production of LIBRAS through the SignWriting system. Despite
that, this software does not englobe all graphemes (symbols) of the
SignWriting system referring to the graphic representation of LIBRAS’ HS,
entailing in its turn, difficulties for writers, translators and
researchers in this sense.

we propose the application of the second step which we developed in the
form of a Public Consultation on an online platform. This involves sharing
the present study with society as a whole, especially with the deaf
Brazilian community that uses the LIBRAS’ written modality through the
SignWriting system. In this process, we hope to incite many people to share
other HS that, until now, are not present in this inventory or in the
proposed inventory by Sutton & Frost either, the latter who is also
available for consultation on the platform.

Therefore, the expected result with this study is that the investigated and
catalogued HS by the collaborative work done through public consultation
and its respective registers in this research are that they are evaluated
and validated by the system’s inventor, Valerie Sutton and her team, to
posteriorly be implemented in the main software of textual production,
transcription, and registration of LIBRAS’ written form by the SignWriting
system. In this perspective, all the Brazilian users of the Written Sign
Language through the SignWriting system will be able to do any production
in reference of the Handshapes, that means, without any preoccupations with
the Handshape that will be used because there won’t be any past barrier
that forced its users to take alternative means to do so.

To each Libras user, please send any handshape. We appreciate it.

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