A System to Make Signs Using Collaborative Approach

  • Authors:

  • Mohamed Jemni;Oussama Elghoul

  • Affiliations:

  • Research Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication UTIC[8], Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis, Bab Mnara, Tunisia 1008;Research Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication UTIC[8], Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis, Bab Mnara, Tunisia 1008

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The generation of gestures is essential for the creation and the development of applications dedicated to deaf persons, in particular the illiterates. In most cases, these application need to store gestures codification/description in data bases or dictionaries in order to process sign language, to translate text from or to sign language, to play sign in a 3D scene and so on. The system WebSign we have developed in our laboratory during the last years, is a translator from written text to sign language. It is based on a multi-community approach to respond to the needs of the locality of sign language. To do so, our system allows using specific dictionary for each community and a common dictionary shared by all communities. In this context it is fundamental to define an expressive language which allows describing signs. In order to facilitate the addition of new words without any programming skills, we have developed a web based human-software interface which allows the generation of words described by the defined language.