Modeling and synthesizing spatially inflected verbs for American sign language animations

ASSETS'10 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 99-106

  Huenerfauth, Matt ^a   Lu, Pengfei ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility technology for people who are deaf; American sign language; Animation; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAF; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; EVALUATION STUDY; GENERATION SYSTEMS; HAND MOVEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NOVEL METHODS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SIGN LANGUAGE;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 78650592142     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878803.1878823     Document Type: Conference Paper

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