A knowledge-based sign synthesis architecture

Universal Access in the Information Society

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 405-418

  Fotinea, Stavroula Evita ^a   Efthimiou, Eleni ^a   Caridakis, George ^b   Karpouzis, Kostas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Greece)

^b Medical Imaging Technologies Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lexicon and grammar coding; Linguistic knowledge; Sign language resources; Sign synthesis; Virtual signing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

GRAMMAR CODING; LEXICON CODING; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; SIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCES; SIGN SYNTHESIS; VIRTUAL SIGNING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 38949150875     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-007-0094-8     Document Type: Article

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