Sign Processing Workshop
Lisbon, May 30, 2004

COMPUTER SUPPORT FOR
SIGNWRITING WRITTEN FORM
OF SIGN LANGUAGE

by Patrice Dalle

Abstract
While SignWriting is more and more used by the deaf community, it currently lacks a complete and platform neutral computer support to let signwriters share documents regardless of the applications and the underlying operating system they may be using. Based on previous research, various propositions have been made, resulting in multiple incompatible systems. The main problem currently is the lack of a consistent basis upon which compatibility could be built : the most advanced and used system, SWML [1], is multiplatform thanks to Java, but requires dedicated applications like the previous attempts..

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