Hello Valerie
thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm starting
to learn Irish Sign Language now in September so I guess it would be most
beneficial if I could get a SignBank than was Irish Sign Language. I'm not
100% sure but I heard that ASL and ISL are more similar than BSL and ISL or
BSL and ASL on that basis I was going to use ASL due to the fact there is
more work done in ASL and then refer back to ISL. At a guess how many basic
signs are there that you would need to have basic everyday conversations.
If I can get them together and then use neural networks or some natural
language technology to get them organised into different clusters and then
have a basic real time rule based system to display then as they are needed
in a conversation on a hand held touch screen I'd have the basis of a PhD.
It seems all so far away but I have to start somewhere so we will see how it
goes!!
The Sign Writing List is great I have had some very helpful people contact
me and give me great advice there is some very smart people on this
listing!! I know I'm well out of my dept in this area but everyone is very
encouraging.
I've downloaded the SignWriter Shareware, US version and printed out the
manual so I'll start reading this and see how I go !!!
Thanks Again!!
Tony!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Valerie Sutton
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: SW Touch Screen Keypad
> Tony McCloskey in Ireland wrote:
> >I was wondering about the SignBank does it come as a
> >book or as a software package and how many signs does it contain?? I
need
> >to buy a copy could you tell me how much it is so I can get the college
to
> >buy a copy and how I go about ordering it!!
>
>
> SignWriting List
> August 22, 2001
>
> I am so glad to hear from you again, Tony. Did the advice and input
> from the SignWriting List members help? I hope so!
>
> We have a printed American Sign Language Dictionary with 3100 signs.
> It can be purchased in book form (a three-ringed notebook that is
> like a textbook):
>
> Sutton's American Sign Language Dictionary
> https://www.SignWriting.org/catalog/sw122.html
>
> And the same dictionary of 3100 signs is a part of the free
> SignWriter Shareware, US version. The dictionary is stored in the
> shareware, and can be accessed by opening the SignWriter program. It
> can be printed from the shareware too.
>
> Download Shareware
> https://www.SignWriting.org/forums/software/sw44/download
>
> And there are other wonderful dictionaries in SignWriting around the
> world, including the Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary, which is
> available for purchase from Brazil:
>
> Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary
> https://www.SignWriting.org/brazil/brazil.html
>
>
> In regards to your question about the SignBank Database....It is
> specially-designed database software in FileMaker 5.0. We are working
> with a FileMaker developer, to create database software that makes it
> possible to sort signs by Sign-Symbol-Sequence. So it is quite
> unique. FileMaker has never been used in this fashion before.
>
> The SignBankSite
> https://www.SignBank.org
>
> SignBank 1.0 was a Macintosh desk accessory for storing signs, which
> we developed in the mid 1980's. It is no longer available.
>
> SignBank 2.0 is a new version in FileMaker 5.0. It will work on
> Macintosh and Windows.
>
> SignBank 2.0 is not ready yet. I am hoping to ask a few beta testers
> to help me in September to test SignBank 2.0. But even with a
> successful testing period, that will not give us a database. It will
> give us software for creating new databases. But it may take us years
> to actually build large SignBanks.
>
> In time it will be sold. I do not know the price yet.
>
> Which Sign Language do you want to use, Tony? Irish Sign Language? If
> so, I know that a Deaf man named Patrick Matthews, in Dublin, has
> written a small Irish Sign Language dictionary in SignWriting. As you
> know, Sign Languages are not international.
> --
> Val ;->
>
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Valerie Sutton
>
>
> ....visit the...
>
> SignWritingSite
> https://www.SignWriting.org
> Read & Write Sign Languages
>
> SignBankSite
> https://www.SignBank.org
> Sign Language Dictionaries
>
> DanceWritingSite
> https://www.DanceWriting.org
> Read & Write Dance
>
> MovementWritingSite
> https://www.MovementWriting.org
> Read & Write All Movement
>
>
> Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting
> Center For Sutton Movement Writing
> an educational nonprofit organization
> Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA
> phone: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020
>
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