Collecting a motion-capture corpus of american sign language for data-driven generation research

Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2010 at the 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 89-97

  Lu, Pengfei ^a   Huenerfauth, Matt ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE; CAPTURE CONFIGURATION; DATA DRIVEN; DATA DRIVEN GENERATION; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN MOVEMENTS; LANGUAGE GENERATION; MOTION CAPTURE; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85106258395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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