Improving spatial reference in american sign language animation through data collection from native ASL signers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5616 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages 530-539

  Huenerfauth, Matt ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility technology for people who are deaf; American Sign Language; Animation; Evaluation; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; ANIMATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ANIMATION; DATA COLLECTION; EVALUATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS; SPATIAL REFERENCE;

ANIMATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350331101     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02713-0_56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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