Representing coordination and non-coordination in an American sign language animation

ASSETS 2005 - The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 44-51

  Huenerfauth, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility Technology for the Deaf; American Sign Language; Gesture Generation; Multimodal Generation

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEAF; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL); GESTURE GENERATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; MULTIMODAL GENERATION;

ANIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GESTURE RECOGNITION; INFORMATION THEORY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SIGNAL ENCODING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 32344433164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1090785.1090796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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