Representing coordination and non-coordination in American Sign Language animations

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 285-295

  Huenerfauth, Matt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility technology for the deaf; American Sign Language; Gesture generation; Machine translation; Multimodal generation; Partition Constitute formalism

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GESTURE RECOGNITION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEAF; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; GESTURE GENERATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MULTIMODAL GENERATION; PARTITION/CONSTITUTE FORMALISM;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33745619544     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290600636769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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