Evaluation of American sign language generation by native ASL signers

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Huenerfauth, Matt ^a   Zhao, Liming ^b   Gu, Erdan ^b   Allbeck, Jan ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility technology for the deaf; American Sign Language; Animation; Evaluation; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; COMPREHENSION TASKS; EVALUATION; EVALUATION STUDY; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEMS; UNDERSTANDABILITY; WRITTEN TEXTS;

ANIMATION; CLASSIFIERS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 67651140139     PISSN: 19367228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1361203.1361206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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