From SignWriting to Image Processing.
Information techniques and their implications
for teaching, documentation and communication.

On the occasion of the 4th International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2004
Date: 30-May-2004 (at the closing of the main conference) Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Programme (27.02.2003)

Time	Speaker	Content Title of the contribution
9:00 ­ 10:30	Invited talks
9:00 ­ 9:20 (10? discussion)	Thomas Hanke	HamNoSys
9:30 ­ 9:50 (10? discussion)	Carol Neidle & Robert G. Lee	Corpus Annotation, SignStream
10:00 ­ 10:20 (10? discussion)	Richard Gleaves	SignWriting
10:30 ­ 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 ­ 12:30 and 14:00 ­ 15:30	Oral presentations
11:00 ­ 11:20 (10? discussion)	Galini Sapountzaki, Eleni Efthimiou, Costas Karpouzis, Vassilis Kourbetis	Developing an e-Learning Platform for Greek Sign Language
11:30 ­ 11:50 (10? discussion)	Onno Crasborn, Els van der Kooij, Daan Broeder, Hennie Brugman	Sharing sign language corpora online: proposals for transcription and metadata categories
12:00 ­ 12:20 (10? discussion)	Matt Huenerfauth	Spatial Representations for Generating Classifier Predicates in an English to American Sign Language Machine Translation System
12:30 ­ 14:00	Lunch
14:00 ­ 14:20 (10? discussion)	Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Graçaliz Pereira Dimuro, Juliano Balestra de Freitas	A Sign Matching Techinque to Support Searches in Sign Language Texts
14:30 ­ 14:50 (10? discussion)	Angel Herrero	A Practical Writing System for Sign Languages
15:00 ­ 15:20 (10? discussion)	Maria Papadogiorgaki, Nikos Grammalidis, Nikos Sarris, Michael G. Strintzis	Synthesis of Virtual Reality Animations from SWML using MPEG-4 Body Animation Parameters
15:30 ­ 16:00	Coffee Break

16:00 ­ 18:00	Poster session
	Eleni Efthimiou, Anna Vacalopoulou, Stavroula Evita Fotinea, Gregory Steinhauer	Multipurpose Design and Creation of GSL Dictionaries
	Chiara Vettori, Oliver Streiter, Judith Knapp	From CALL to Sign Language Processing: the design of e-LIS, an Electronic Bilingual Dictionary of Italian Sign Language and Italian
	Paola Laterza, Claudio Baj	e-LIS@ Project
	Rubén Nogueira, Jose M. Martínez	19th Century Signs in the Online Spanish Sign Language Virtual Library: The Historical Dictionary Project
	Elana Ochse	A language via two others: learning English through LIS
	Ingvild Roald	Making of Dictionaries of Technical Signs ­ from Paper and Glue through Sw-DOS to SignBank
	Steven Aerts, Bart Braem,
	Katrien Van Mulders, Kristof	SearchingSignWritingSigns
	De Weerdt
	Inge Zwitserlood, Doeko	Sign Printing System (SignPS)
	Hekstra	Synthetic Sign
	Boris Lenseigne, Frédérick	A New Gesture Representation
	Gianni, Patrice Dalle	for Sign Language Analysis
	Jose L. Hernandez - Rebollar	Phonetic Model for Automatic Recognition of Hand Gestures
	Daniel Noelpp	Development of a new „SignWriter“ Program
		SiGML Notation and
	Ralph Elliott	SiGMLSigning Software System
	Jan Bungeroth, Hermann Ney	Statistical Sign Language Translation
		Computer Support for
	Guylhem Aznar	SignWriting Written Form of
		Sign Language

More questions? Write to:

Oliver Streiter
ostreiter@eurac.edu

...or...

Chiara Vettori
cvettori@eurac.edu


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